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.

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

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193342

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 4.9) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C") 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: 202408281943
Version 1.0 Apr 16, 2024, 12:18 AM New Plugin Feed: 202404160018