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Oracle Linux 8 : virt:kvm_utils1 (ELSA-2024-12435)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200518

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12435 advisory.

 - Document CVEs as fixed (Karl Heubaum) {CVE-2023-2700}
 - Fix off-by-one error in udevListInterfacesByStatus (Martin Kletzander) [Orabug: 36364474] {CVE-2024-1441}
 - Document CVEs as fixed (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 36455470] [Orabug: 36455480] [Orabug: 36455529] [Orabug:
 36455489] [Orabug: 36455500] [Orabug: 36455512] [Orabug: 36455520] {CVE-2023-4135} {CVE-2023-3255} {CVE-2023-6683} {CVE-2023-40360} {CVE-2023-42467} {CVE-2024-26327} {CVE-2024-24474}
 - hw/pvrdma: Protect against buggy or malicious guest driver (Yuval Shaia) [Orabug: 35250119] {CVE-2023-1544}
 - net: Update MemReentrancyGuard for NIC (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 36421467] {CVE-2023-3019}
 - net: Provide MemReentrancyGuard * to qemu_new_nic() (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 36421467] {CVE-2023-3019}
 - lsi53c895a: disable reentrancy detection for MMIO region, too (Thomas Huth) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - memory: stricter checks prior to unsetting engaged_in_io (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - async: avoid use-after-free on re-entrancy guard (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - apic: disable reentrancy detection for apic-msi (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - raven: disable reentrancy detection for iomem (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - bcm2835_property: disable reentrancy detection for iomem (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - lsi53c895a: disable reentrancy detection for script RAM (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - hw: replace most qemu_bh_new calls with qemu_bh_new_guarded (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - checkpatch: add qemu_bh_new/aio_bh_new checks (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - async: Add an optional reentrancy guard to the BH API (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - memory: prevent dma-reentracy issues (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - util/async: add a human-readable name to BHs for debugging (Stefan Hajnoczi) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - io: remove io watch if TLS channel is closed during handshake (Daniel Berrange) [Orabug: 35595204] {CVE-2023-3354}
 - tests/qtest: ahci-test: add test exposing reset issue with pending callback (Fiona Ebner) [Orabug:
 36327659] {CVE-2023-5088}
 - hw/ide: reset: cancel async DMA operation before resetting state (Fiona Ebner) [Orabug: 36327659] {CVE-2023-5088}
 - accel/tcg: fix race in cpu_exec_step_atomic (bug 1863025) (Alex Bennee) [Orabug: 36327651] {CVE-2020-24165}
 - virtio-crypto: verify src&dst buffer length for sym request (zhenwei pi) [Orabug: 35724113] {CVE-2023-3180}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-12435.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200518

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-12435.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/14/2024

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: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2700

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: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, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::kvm_appstream, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-gzip-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt, 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: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:libiscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-dbus, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-admin, 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: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, cpe:/a:oracle:exadata_dbserver:23.1.17.0.0::ol8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sgabios, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-example-plugins, cpe:/a:oracle:exadata_dbserver:24.1.2.0.0::ol8, 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-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: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, cpe:/a:oracle:exadata_dbserver:23.1.18.0.0::ol8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-xz-filter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-man-pages-ja, 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:libvirt-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdfuse, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-benchmarking, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:supermin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-xfs, 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:libnbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-rescue, cpe:/a:oracle:exadata_dbserver:23.1.16.0.0::ol8, 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:libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gobject, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-winsupport, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, 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, 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:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, 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: 6/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2700, CVE-2024-1441

IAVA: 2024-A-0184