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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-8354

medium Nessus Plugin ID 232140

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - A flaw was found in QEMU. An assertion failure was present in the usb_ep_get() function in hw/net/core.c when trying to get the USB endpoint from a USB device. This flaw may allow a malicious unprivileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host and cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2024-8354)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-8354

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-8354

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-8354

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 232140

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_8354.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 9/17/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8354

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tests, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kiwi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-pr-helper, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-pr-helper, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kiwi, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-spice, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-hw-usbredir, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga-gl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-blkio, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-block-blkio, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga-gl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-hw-usbredir, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qemu-kvm-ui-spice, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8354