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Amazon Linux 2 : libvirt, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3115 (ALAS-2025-3115)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 281801

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of libvirt installed on the remote host is prior to 4.5.0-36. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-3115 advisory.

 A flaw was discovered in libvirt in the XML file processing. More specifically, the parsing of user provided XML files was performed before the ACL checks. A malicious user with limited permissions could exploit this flaw by submitting a specially crafted XML file, causing libvirt to allocate too much memory on the host. The excessive memory consumption could lead to a libvirt process crash on the host, resulting in a denial-of-service condition. (CVE-2025-12748)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update libvirt' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-3115' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-12748.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-3115.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 281801

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-3115.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/5/2026

Updated: 1/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-12748

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:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-admin, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-daemon-lxc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-docs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-login-shell, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-nss, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvirt-bash-completion

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-12748

IAVA: 2025-A-0839-S