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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-6734-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193342

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6734-1 advisory.

 Alexander Kuznetsov discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain API calls. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-1441)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain RPC library API calls. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-2494)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled detaching certain host interfaces. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvirt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-2496)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6734-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193342

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6734-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/15/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2496

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2494

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-zfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system-sysv, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-clients-qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-l10n, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-direct, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system-systemd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-wireshark, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-xen, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-login-shell, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1441, CVE-2024-2494, CVE-2024-2496

IAVA: 2024-A-0184

USN: 6734-1