The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9172 advisory.

    - Bounds check for block exceeding page length (CVE-2021-3504)       resolves: rhbz#1950501

    libguestfs
    - Document CVE-2021-4158 and CVE-2021-3947 as fixed (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 33719302] [Orabug: 33754145]     {CVE-2021-4158} {CVE-2021-3947}
    - hw/block/fdc: Kludge missing floppy drive to fix CVE-2021-20196 (Philippe Mathieu-Daude) [Orabug:
    32439466] {CVE-2021-20196}
    - hw/block/fdc: Extract blk_create_empty_drive() (Philippe Mathieu-Daude) [Orabug: 32439466]     {CVE-2021-20196}
    - net: vmxnet3: validate configuration values during activate (CVE-2021-20203) (Prasad J Pandit) [Orabug:
    32559476] {CVE-2021-20203}
    - lan9118: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540]     {CVE-2021-3416}
    - pcnet: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540]     {CVE-2021-3416}
    - rtl8139: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540]     {CVE-2021-3416}
    - tx_pkt: switch to use qemu_receive_packet_iov() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540]     {CVE-2021-3416}
    - sungem: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
    - dp8393x: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback packet (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540]     {CVE-2021-3416}
    - e1000: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
    - net: introduce qemu_receive_packet() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
    - Update slirp to address various CVEs (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 32208456] [Orabug: 33014409] [Orabug:
    33014414] [Orabug: 33014417] [Orabug: 33014420] {CVE-2020-29129} {CVE-2020-29130} {CVE-2021-3592}     {CVE-2021-3593} {CVE-2021-3594} {CVE-2021-3595}
    - uas: add stream number sanity checks (Gerd Hoffmann) [Orabug: 33280793] {CVE-2021-3713}
    - usbredir: fix free call (Gerd Hoffmann) [Orabug: 33198441] {CVE-2021-3682}
    - hw/scsi/scsi-disk: MODE_PAGE_ALLS not allowed in MODE SELECT commands (Mauro Matteo Cascella) [Orabug:
    33548490] {CVE-2021-3930}
    - e1000: fix tx re-entrancy problem (Jon Maloy) [Orabug: 32560552] {CVE-2021-20257}
    - pvrdma: Fix the ring init error flow (Marcel Apfelbaum) [Orabug: 33120142] {CVE-2021-3608}
    - pvrdma: Ensure correct input on ring init (Marcel Apfelbaum) [Orabug: 33120146] {CVE-2021-3607}
    - hw/rdma: Fix possible mremap overflow in the pvrdma device (Marcel Apfelbaum) [Orabug: 33120084]     {CVE-2021-3582}
    - vhost-user-gpu: reorder free calls (Gerd Hoffmann) [Orabug: 32950701] {CVE-2021-3544}
    - vhost-user-gpu: abstract vg_cleanup_mapping_iov (Li Qiang) [Orabug: 32950716] {CVE-2021-3546}
    - vhost-user-gpu: fix OOB write in 'virgl_cmd_get_capset' (Li Qiang) [Orabug: 32950716] {CVE-2021-3546}
    - vhost-user-gpu: fix memory leak in 'virgl_resource_attach_backing' (Li Qiang) [Orabug: 32950701]     {CVE-2021-3544}
    - vhost-user-gpu: fix memory leak in 'virgl_cmd_resource_unref' (Li Qiang) [Orabug: 32950701]     {CVE-2021-3544}
    - vhost-user-gpu: fix memory leak while calling 'vg_resource_unref' (Li Qiang) [Orabug: 32950701]     {CVE-2021-3544}
    - vhost-user-gpu: fix memory leak in vg_resource_attach_backing (Li Qiang) [Orabug: 32950701]     {CVE-2021-3544}
    - vhost-user-gpu: fix resource leak in 'vg_resource_create_2d' (Li Qiang) [Orabug: 32950701]     {CVE-2021-3544}
    - vhost-user-gpu: fix memory disclosure in virgl_cmd_get_capset_info (Li Qiang) [Orabug: 32950708]     {CVE-2021-3545}
    - usb: limit combined packets to 1 MiB (Gerd Hoffmann) [Orabug: 32842778] {CVE-2021-3527}
    - usb/redir: avoid dynamic stack allocation (Gerd Hoffmann) [Orabug: 32842778] {CVE-2021-3527}
    - mptsas: Remove unused MPTSASState 'pending' field (Michael Tokarev) [Orabug: 32470463] {CVE-2021-3392}

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

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

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Oracle Linux 8 : kvm_utils (ELSA-2022-9172)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158359

Version 1.7

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Version 1.7 Nov 2, 2024, 5:10 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411020510
Version 1.6 Oct 23, 2024, 10:51 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202410232251
Version 1.5 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114
Version 1.4 Nov 7, 2023, 3:08 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202311071508
Version 1.3 Nov 21, 2022, 10:22 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211212222