Oracle Linux 8 : virt:ol / and / virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2024-3253)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198277

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-3253 advisory.

- remote: check for negative array lengths before allocation (CVE-2024-2494)

libvirt-dbus libvirt-python nbdkit netcf perl-Sys-Virt qemu-kvm
- Resolves: RHEL-19628 (CVE-2023-6683 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: QEMU: VNC: NULL pointer dereference in qemu_clipboard_request() [rhel-8])
- Resolves: RHEL-19496 (CVE-2023-6693 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: QEMU: virtio-net: stack buffer overflow in virtio_net_flush_tx() [rhel-8])
- Resolves: RHEL-15437 (CVE-2023-5088 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite [rhel-8])
- Resolves: RHEL-7309 (CVE-2023-3019 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: QEMU: e1000e: heap use-after-free in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest() [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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-3253.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 198277

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-3253.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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-2024-2494

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gfs2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-rsync, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-tar-filter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-dib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-nss, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-tools-c, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sys-guestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-gzip-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-v2v-man-pages-uk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-tmpdisk-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-vddk-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm-tools-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-dbus, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-inspect-icons, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-man-pages-uk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sys-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sgabios, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-server, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8:9:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-example-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:lua-guestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-wireshark, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libtpms, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8:10:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-direct, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-ui-spice, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-hivex, cpe:/a:oracle:exadata_dbserver:24.1.1.0.0::ol8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-libnbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-nbd-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-xz-filter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-man-pages-ja, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-tar-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-java-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-ssh-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-hw-usbredir, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-v2v-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdfuse, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-v2v-man-pages-ja, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:supermin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-xfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-libnbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libnbd-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-v2v, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libnbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-curl-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libnbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-rescue, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libtpms-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seabios-bin, cpe:/a:oracle:exadata_dbserver:24.1.4.0.0::ol8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-gzip-filter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gobject, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-winsupport, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-appliance, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-python-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:supermin-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seavgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seabios, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-java, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:swtpm-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-basic-filters, cpe:/a:oracle:exadata_dbserver:24.1.3.0.0::ol8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libnbd

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2494