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MiracleLinux 4 : qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.AXS4.14 (AXSA:2014-502:05)

high Nessus Plugin ID 289391

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2014-502:05 advisory.

 Description :
 KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware.
 Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware:
 a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2014-0222 CVE-2014-0223 all issues are;
 ** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.
 please see below CVE's links fixed bugs;
 * Previously, the disk size could be expanded considerably due to the transfer of unallocated sectors past the end of the base image, when performing live incremental migration. With this update, the bdrv_is_allocated() function has been fixed to no longer return True for unallocated sectors, and the disk size no longer changes after performing live incremental migration.
 * Previously, vendor-specific SCSI commands issued from a KVM guest did not reach the target device due to QEMU considering such commands as invalid. with this update, fixed it.
 * This update contain a patch that enables ioeventfd in virtio-scsi-pci.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/4946

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 289391

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2014-502.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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0222

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:qemu-kvm, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:qemu-img

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0222, CVE-2014-0223