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AlmaLinux 8 : virt:rhel (ALSA-2020:2774)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 157679

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2020:2774 advisory.

 * QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages (CVE-2020-8608)

 * QEMU: vnc: memory leakage upon disconnect (CVE-2019-20382)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2020-2774.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 157679

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2020-2774.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 2/9/2022

Updated: 1/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8608

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:netcf-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:netcf-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:sgabios, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libiscsi-utils, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:sgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libiscsi-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:netcf, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libiscsi

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20382, CVE-2020-8608