Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: hivex / hivex-debuginfo / hivex-debugsource / hivex-devel / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2022_7472)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 358899

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Synopsis

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

Description

The Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-2022_7472 advisory.

* QEMU: fdc: heap buffer overflow in DMA read data transfers (CVE-2021-3507)

* libvirt: missing locking in nwfilterConnectNumOfNWFilters can lead to denial of service (CVE-2022-0897)

* libguestfs: Buffer overflow in get_keys leads to DoS (CVE-2022-2211)

* swtpm: Unchecked header size indicator against expected size (CVE-2022-23645)

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-2022_7472.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 358899

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_8_crlsa-2022_7472.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.63

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3507

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3507, CVE-2022-0897, CVE-2022-2211, CVE-2022-23645

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