The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4799 advisory.

    Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and     other OSes).

    Security Fix(es):

    * libvirt: Memory leak in virPCIVirtualFunctionList cleanup (CVE-2023-2700)

    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):

    * No bootable device with OS boot disk interface VirtIO-SCSI and with more than 9 VirtIO disks.
    (BZ#2228486)

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-2023:4799)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180242

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