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.

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

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198277

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Version 1.4 Nov 2, 2024, 5:10 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411020510
Version 1.3 Oct 23, 2024, 10:51 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 Feed: 202410232251
Version 1.2 Sep 22, 2024, 3:24 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202409220324
Version 1.1 Jun 1, 2024, 8:49 AM New Plugin Feed: 202406010849