The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4420 advisory.

    Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for     Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages     which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs     for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.

    Security Fix(es):

    * qemu-kvm: QEMU: 'qemu-img info' leads to host file read/write (CVE-2024-4467)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References     section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 8 : virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2024:4420)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202073

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 2:36 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 metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071436
Version 1.1 Jul 10, 2024, 4:11 PM New Plugin Feed: 202407101611