The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-3822 advisory.

    - Fix CVE-2022-2211 Denial of Service in --key parameter       resolves: rhbz#2101280
    - Fixes: CVE-2021-46790, CVE-2022-30783, CVE-2022-30784, CVE-2022-30785,       CVE-2022-30786, CVE-2022-30787, CVE-2022-30788, CVE-2022-30789       resolves: rhbz#2127240 rhbz#2127248       (also: 2127233 2127234 2127241 2127249 2127255 2127256 2127262 2127263)

    libiscsi     libnbd
    - Fix CVE-2022-0485: Fail nbdcopy if NBD read or write fails       resolves: rhbz#2045718
    - Contains fix for NBD Protocol Downgrade Attack (CVE-2019-14842).
    - Backport 'tpm2: Check size of buffer before accessing it' (CVE-2023-1017 & CVE-2023-1018)       Resolves: rhbz#2173964       Resolves: rhbz#2173970

    libvirt
    - virpci: Resolve leak in virPCIVirtualFunctionList cleanup [CVE-2023-2700]
    - node_device_conf: Avoid memleak in virNodeDeviceGetPCIVPDDynamicCap() [CVE-2023-2700]
    - nwfilter: fix crash when counting number of network filters (CVE-2022-0897, rhbz#2063902)
    - security: fix SELinux label generation logic (CVE-2021-3631)
    - storage_driver: Unlock object on ACL fail in storagePoolLookupByTargetPath (CVE-2021-3667)
    - rpc: gendispatch: handle empty flags (CVE-2020-25637)
    - rpc: add support for filtering @acls by uint params (CVE-2020-25637)
    - rpc: require write acl for guest agent in virDomainInterfaceAddresses (CVE-2020-25637)
    - qemu: agent: set ifname to NULL after freeing (CVE-2020-25637)
    - virdevmapper: Don't use libdevmapper to obtain dependencies (CVE-2020-14339, rhbz#1860421)
    - conf: Don't format http cookies unless VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_SECURE is used (CVE-2020-14301)
    - cpu_map: Add TAA_NO bit for IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR (CVE-2019-11135)
    - cpu_map: Add TSX_CTRL bit for IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR (CVE-2019-11135)
    - api: disallow virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc on read-only connections (CVE-2019-10161)
    - api: disallow virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML on read-only connections (CVE-2019-10166)
    - api: disallow virConnectGetDomainCapabilities on read-only connections (CVE-2019-10167)
    - api: disallow virConnect*HypervisorCPU on read-only connections (CVE-2019-10168)
    - admin: reject clients unless their UID matches the current UID (CVE-2019-10132)
    - locking: restrict sockets to mode 0600 (CVE-2019-10132)
    - logging: restrict sockets to mode 0600 (CVE-2019-10132)
    - cpu_x86: Do not cache microcode version (CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130)
    - qemu: Don't cache microcode version (CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130)
    - cputest: Add data for Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 v5 (CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126,     CVE-2018-12130)
    - cpu_map: Define md-clear CPUID bit (CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130)
    - Resolves: bz#2148545       (CVE-2022-4144 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: QEMU: QXL: qxl_phys2virt unsafe address translation can lead to out-     of-bounds read [rhel-8])
    - Resolves: bz#2129760       (CVE-2022-3165 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: QEMU: VNC: integer underflow in vnc_client_cut_text_ext leads to CPU     exhaustion [rhel-8])

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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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Oracle Linux 8 : virt:ol / and / virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2023-3822)

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Version 1.3 Nov 2, 2024, 5:10 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 Feed: 202411020510
Version 1.2 Oct 23, 2024, 3:11 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 Feed: 202410230311
Version 1.1 Oct 22, 2024, 6:42 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410221842
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