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Rocky Linux 9 [CIQ] Security Update: qemu-guest-agent / qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo / qemu-img / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2024_9136)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 358158

Synopsis

The Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-2024_9136 advisory.

 * QEMU: SR-IOV: improper validation of NumVFs leads to buffer overflow (CVE-2024-26327)

 * QEMU: virtio: DMA reentrancy issue leads to double free vulnerability (CVE-2024-3446)

 * QEMU: Denial of Service via Improper Synchronization in QEMU NBD Server During Socket Closure (CVE-2024-7409)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ 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 based on the guidance in CIQ advisory crlsa-2024_9136.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9136

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264844

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274211

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302487

https://errata.build.resf.org/RLSA-2024:9136

http://www.nessus.org/u?10c7c053

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d3f8ab8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 358158

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_9_crlsa-2024_9136.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26327

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/OS/extended-third-party

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26327, CVE-2024-3446, CVE-2024-7409