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Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: hivex / hivex-debuginfo / hivex-debugsource / hivex-devel / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2021_3061)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 358970

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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-2021_3061 advisory.

 * QEMU: msix: OOB access during mmio operations may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-13754)

 * hivex: Buffer overflow when provided invalid node key length (CVE-2021-3504)

 * QEMU: net: an assert failure via eth_get_gso_type (CVE-2020-27617)

 * QEMU: net: infinite loop in loopback mode may lead to stack overflow (CVE-2021-3416)

 * qemu: out-of-bound heap buffer access via an interrupt ID field (CVE-2021-20221)

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-2021_3061.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3061

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1842363

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891668

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924601

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932827

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949687

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958301

https://errata.build.resf.org/RLSA-2021:3061

http://www.nessus.org/u?a87d614e

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6bfe039

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 358970

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_8_crlsa-2021_3061.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3504

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:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13754

Vulnerability Information

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13754, CVE-2020-27617, CVE-2021-20221, CVE-2021-3416, CVE-2021-3504