Detections
Analytics

MiracleLinux 4 : libguestfs-1.20.11-20.0.1.AXS4 (AXSA:2017-1635:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 288993

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2017-1635:01 advisory.

 Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images.
 Amongst the things this is good for: making batch configuration changes to guests, getting disk used/free statistics (see also:
 virt-df), migrating between virtualization systems (see also:
 virt-p2v), performing partial backups, performing partial guest clones, cloning guests and changing registry/UUID/hostname info, and much else besides.
 Libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any type of guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but not limited to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
 Libguestfs provides ways to enumerate guest storage (eg. partitions, LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.). It can also run commands in the context of the guest.
 Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C management programs.
 For high level virt tools, guestfish (shell scripting and command line access), and guestmount (mount guest filesystems using FUSE), install 'libguestfs-tools'.
 For shell scripting and command line access, install 'guestfish'.
 To mount guest filesystems on the host using FUSE, install 'libguestfs-mount'.
 For Java bindings, install 'libguestfs-java-devel'.
 For OCaml bindings, install 'ocaml-libguestfs-devel'.
 For Perl bindings, install 'perl-Sys-Guestfs'.
 For Python bindings, install 'python-libguestfs'.
 For Ruby bindings, install 'ruby-libguestfs'.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2015-8869 OCaml before 4.03.0 does not properly handle sign extensions, which allows remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks or obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by a long string to the String.copy function.
 Additional Changes:

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/8067

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 288993

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2017-1635.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8869

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libguestfs-java, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libguestfs-tools, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libguestfs-tools-c, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-sys-guestfs, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libguestfs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8869