The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0099 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: QXL: qxl_phys2virt unsafe address translation can lead to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2022-4144)

    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.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * libvirt kills virtual machine on restart when 2M and 1G hugepages are mounted (BZ#2132176)

    * VMs hung on vnc_clipboard_send (BZ#2148504)

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:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2023:0099)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 169959

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Version 1.5 Nov 8, 2024, 8:20 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 metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080820
Version 1.3 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262318
Version 1.2 May 24, 2023, 8:43 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305242043
Version 1.2 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262100
Version 1.1 Jan 24, 2023, 1:51 AM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301240151
Version 1.0 Jan 12, 2023, 1:52 PM New Plugin Feed: 202301121352