The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2519 advisory.

    The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host.
    These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host. Red Hat     Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat     Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user     interface for monitoring the host's resources and     performing administrative tasks.

    Security Fix(es):

    * glib: integer overflow in g_bytes_new function on 64-bit platforms due to an implicit cast from 64 bits     to 32 bits (CVE-2021-27219)

    * hw: vt-d related privilege escalation (CVE-2020-24489)

    * dhcp: stack-based buffer overflow when parsing statements with colon-separated hex digits in config or     lease files in dhcpd and dhclient (CVE-2021-25217)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : RHV-H security update (redhat-virtualization-host) 4.3.16 (Important) (RHSA-2021:2519)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150951

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