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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-5399-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 160444

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5399-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain locking operations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvirt to stop accepting connections, resulting in a denial of service.
 This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3667)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled threads during shutdown. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3975)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled the libxl driver. An attacker inside a guest could possibly use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash or stop responding, resulting in a denial of service.
 This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 21.10. (CVE-2021-4147)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled the nwfilter driver. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-0897)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled the polkit access control driver. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-25637)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly generated SELinux labels. In environments using SELinux, this issue could allow the sVirt confinement to be bypassed. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3631)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5399-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 160444

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5399-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2022

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25637

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-zfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system-sysv, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-bin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-sheepdog, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system-systemd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-wireshark, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-xen, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25637, CVE-2021-3631, CVE-2021-3667, CVE-2021-3975, CVE-2021-4147, CVE-2022-0897

USN: 5399-1