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Oracle Linux 9 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2024-12674)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207441

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12674 advisory.

 - hw/virtio/virtio-crypto: Protect from DMA re-entrancy bugs (Philippe Mathieu-Daude) [Orabug: 36869694] {CVE-2024-3446}
 - hw/char/virtio-serial-bus: Protect from DMA re-entrancy bugs (Philippe Mathieu-Daude) [Orabug: 36869694] {CVE-2024-3446}
 - hw/display/virtio-gpu: Protect from DMA re-entrancy bugs (Philippe Mathieu-Daude) [Orabug: 36869694] {CVE-2024-3446}
 - hw/virtio: Introduce virtio_bh_new_guarded() helper (Philippe Mathieu-Daude) [Orabug: 36869694] {CVE-2024-3446}
 - pcie_sriov: Validate NumVFs (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 36314082] {CVE-2024-26327}
 - hw/nvme: Use pcie_sriov_num_vfs() (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 36314111] {CVE-2024-26328}
 - pcie: Introduce pcie_sriov_num_vfs (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 36314111] {CVE-2024-26328}
 - qcow2: Don't open data_file with BDRV_O_NO_IO (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 36801853] {CVE-2024-4467}

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-2024-12674.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207441

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-12674.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2024

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-4467

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3446

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-virtiofsd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::kvm_utils

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: 9/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26327, CVE-2024-26328, CVE-2024-3446, CVE-2024-4467