The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0973 advisory.

    Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for     Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages     which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The     packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized     systems.

    Security Fix(es):

    * QEMU: virtiofsd: potential privilege escalation via CVE-2018-13405 (CVE-2022-0358)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s)     listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 8 : virt:av and virt-devel:av qemu-kvm (RHSA-2022:0973)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159121

Version 1.11