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RockyLinux 9 : qemu-kvm (RLSA-2025:4492)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243142

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:4492 advisory.

 * QEMU: virtio-net: stack buffer overflow in virtio_net_flush_tx() (CVE-2023-6693)

 * qemu-kvm: net: assertion failure in update_sctp_checksum() (CVE-2024-3567)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:4492

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254580

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274339

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 243142

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-4492.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6693

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6693, CVE-2024-3567