The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2236 advisory.

    The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of     Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of     virtualized systems.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libvirt: NULL pointer dereference in udevConnectListAllInterfaces() (CVE-2024-2496)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes     linked from 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 9 : libvirt (RHSA-2024:2236)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194773

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Apr 10, 2025, 7:20 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 5.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202504100720
Version 1.3 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 7:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406041900
Version 1.1 May 2, 2024, 3:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202405021556
Version 1.0 Apr 30, 2024, 4:14 PM New Plugin Feed: 202404301614