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AlmaLinux 9 : libvirt (ALSA-2022:8003)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167990

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:8003 advisory.

 - A flaw was found in the libvirt nwfilter driver. The virNWFilterObjListNumOfNWFilters method failed to acquire the driver->nwfilters mutex before iterating over virNWFilterObj instances. There was no protection to stop another thread from concurrently modifying the driver->nwfilters object. This flaw allows a malicious, unprivileged user to exploit this issue via libvirt's API virConnectNumOfNWFilters to crash the network filter management daemon (libvirtd/virtnwfilterd). (CVE-2022-0897)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-8003.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167990

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2022-8003.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 11/19/2022

Updated: 11/19/2022

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-docs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-nss, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-libs, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm

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: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0897

CWE: 667