Rocky Linux 8 : virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RLSA-2021:1064)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184488

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:1064 advisory.

- It was discovered that the update for the virt:rhel module in the RHSA-2020:4676 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4676) erratum released as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 failed to include the fix for the qemu-kvm component issue CVE-2020-10756, which was previously corrected in virt:rhel/qemu-kvm via erratum RHSA-2020:4059 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4059).
CVE-2021-20295 was assigned to that Red Hat specific security regression. For more details about the original security issue CVE-2020-10756, refer to bug 1835986 or the CVE page:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10756. (CVE-2021-20295)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 184488

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2021-1064.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/6/2023

Updated: 11/6/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20295

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libnbd, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libnbd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libnbd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libnbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvirt-dbus, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvirt-dbus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvirt-dbus-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvirt-python-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdfuse, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdfuse-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-basic-filters, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-basic-filters-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-basic-plugins-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-curl-plugin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-curl-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-example-plugins, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-example-plugins-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-gzip-plugin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-gzip-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-python-plugin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-python-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-server, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-ssh-plugin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-ssh-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-vddk-plugin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-vddk-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-xz-filter, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nbdkit-xz-filter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:netcf, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:netcf-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:netcf-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:netcf-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:netcf-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:netcf-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ocaml-hivex, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ocaml-hivex-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ocaml-hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ocaml-libnbd, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ocaml-libnbd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ocaml-libnbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perl-sys-virt, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perl-sys-virt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:hivex, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:hivex-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:hivex-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libguestfs-winsupport, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libiscsi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libiscsi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libiscsi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libiscsi-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libiscsi-utils, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libiscsi-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perl-sys-virt-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perl-hivex, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:perl-hivex-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-hivex, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-hivex-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-libnbd, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-libnbd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-libvirt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-hivex, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ruby-hivex-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:seabios, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:seabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:seavgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sgabios, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:supermin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:supermin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:supermin-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:supermin-devel, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20295

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