The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0432 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):

    * VMs hung on vnc_clipboard_send (BZ#2148505)

    * qemuAgentGetDisks cannot parse response from a guest agent running in Windows VM (BZ#2152080)

    * VMs requiring vTPM fails to create (BZ#2154413)

    * Bad permissions for files shipped by libvirt-client (BZ#2157092)

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-2023:0432)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170530

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