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AlmaLinux 10 : qemu-kvm (ALSA-2026:58571)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 339383

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2026:58571 advisory.

 * qemu-kvm: Heap buffer overflow in virtio-blk SCSI request handling (CVE-2026-48914)


 Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

 * qemu-kvm hung during drain after double pause [almalinux-10.2.z] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-190702)
 * qemu-img create/convert fails on target block device with 4k sector size [almalinux-10.2.z] (JIRA:AlmaLinux-207389)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58571

https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-58571.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 339383

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2026-58571.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 8/25/2026

Updated: 8/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Percentile: 96.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-48914

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:10, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:10::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-block-blkio, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-pr-helper

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-48914

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2026:58571