The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-0886 advisory.

    qemu-kvm     [4.2.0-59.el8_5.2]
    - kvm-virtiofsd-Drop-membership-of-all-supplementary-group.patch [bz#2048627]
    - Resolves: bz#2048627       (CVE-2022-0358 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: QEMU: virtiofsd: potential privilege escalation via CVE-2018-13405     [rhel-8.5.0.z])

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

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

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Oracle Linux 8 : virt:ol / and / virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2022-0886)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158984

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