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Oracle Linux 9 : libvirt (ELSA-2024-9128)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211542

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-9128 advisory.

 - udevListInterfaces: Honour array length for zero-length NULL arrays (CVE-2024-8235) (CVE-2024-8235, RHEL-55373)
 - Fix off-by-one error in udevListInterfacesByStatus (CVE-2024-1441)
 - remote: check for negative array lengths before allocation (CVE-2024-2494)
 - storage: Fix returning of locked objects from 'virStoragePoolObjListSearch' (CVE-2023-3750, rhbz#2221851)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-9128.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211542

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-9128.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2024

Updated: 11/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-nss, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-libs, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-client-qemu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-lock, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-log, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-plugin-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-proxy, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:5:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-ssh-proxy

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8235