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Oracle Linux 7 : libvirt (ELSA-2020-5961)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146198

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5961 advisory.

 - qemu: remove use of qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithAgent() (Jonathon Jongsma) [Orabug: 31990187] {CVE-2019-20485}
 - qemu: dont hold monitor and agent job when setting time (Jonathon Jongsma) [Orabug: 31990187] {CVE-2019-20485}
 - qemu: dont hold a monitor and agent job for reboot (Jonathon Jongsma) [Orabug: 31990187] {CVE-2019-20485}
 - qemu: dont take agent and monitor job for shutdown (Jonathon Jongsma) [Orabug: 31990187] {CVE-2019-20485}
 - qemu: agent: set ifname to NULL after freeing (Jan Tomko) [Orabug: 31964426] {CVE-2020-25637}
 - rpc: require write acl for guest agent in virDomainInterfaceAddresses (Jan Tomko) [Orabug: 31964426] {CVE-2020-25637}
 - rpc: add support for filtering @acls by uint params (Jan Tomko) [Orabug: 31964426] {CVE-2020-25637}
 - rpc: gendispatch: handle empty flags (Jan Tomko) [Orabug: 31964426] {CVE-2020-25637}

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-2020-5961.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 146198

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-5961.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2021

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25637

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-login-shell, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-nss, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-lxc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-qemu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-docs, 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-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-admin

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: 12/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25637