The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4727 advisory.

    The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component     for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red     Hat products.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A flaw was found in the QEMU disk image utility (qemu-img) 'info' command. A specially crafted image     file containing a `json:{}` value describing block devices in QMP could cause the qemu-img process on the     host to consume large amounts of memory or CPU time, leading to denial of service or read/write to an     existing external file. (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 : Advanced Virtualization 8.2.1z (RHSA-2024:4727)

high Nessus Plugin ID 203136

Version 1.2