The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6980 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: hcd-ehci: DMA reentrancy issue leads to use-after-free (CVE-2021-3750)

    * QEMU: net: triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug (CVE-2023-3301)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Detections

Analytics

RHEL 8 : virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2023:6980)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185690

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.3 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM 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: 202411072328
Version 1.2 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411052132
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 Nov 15, 2023, 4:54 AM New Plugin Feed: 202311150454