RHEL 9 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2024:9136)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210821

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for qemu-kvm.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9136 advisory.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es):

* QEMU: SR-IOV: improper validation of NumVFs leads to buffer overflow (CVE-2024-26327)

* QEMU: virtio: DMA reentrancy issue leads to double free vulnerability (CVE-2024-3446)

* QEMU: Denial of Service via Improper Synchronization in QEMU NBD Server During Socket Closure (CVE-2024-7409)

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 9.5 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL qemu-kvm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9136.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210821

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9136.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/12/2024

Updated: 5/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3446

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26327

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-pr-helper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-blkio, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-common

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26327, CVE-2024-3446, CVE-2024-7409

CWE: 120, 415, 662

RHSA: 2024:9136

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