The remote Debian 12 / 13 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5983 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5983-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff     August 22, 2025                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : qemu     CVE ID         : CVE-2025-54566 CVE-2025-54567

    This update removes the usage of the C (Credential) flag for the     binfmt_misc registration within the qemu-user package, as it allowed for     privilege escalation when running a suid/sgid binary under qemu-user.
    This means suid/sgid foreign-architecture binaries are not running with     elevated privileges under qemu-user anymore.  If you relied on this     behavior of qemu-user in the past (running suid/sgid foreign-arch     binaries), this will require changes to your deployment.

    In Bookworm the affected packages are qemu-user-static (and     qemu-user-binfmt) instead of qemu-user.

    Additionally, two security issues were fixed the in SR-IOV support     of QEMU system emulation.

    For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed     in version 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u15.

    For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in     version 1:10.0.2+ds-2+deb13u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.

    For the detailed security status of qemu please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/qemu

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Debian dsa-5983 : qemu-block-extra - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 254417

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Version 1.1 Aug 26, 2025, 7:20 AM New Plugin Feed: 202508260720