Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0027: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0027)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236668

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2021:0027 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2020-35517:
A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236668

File Name: alinux3_sa_2021-0027.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35517

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-img-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-gluster-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-core-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-tests-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-ssh-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-rbd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-tests, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-common-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:qemu-kvm-common

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35517

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