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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-8652-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 365450

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8652-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled guest reboots in the libxl driver. An attacker in a guest could possibly use this issue to cause the libvirt daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-4147)

 Alexander Kuznetsov discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled listing network interfaces. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the libvirt daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-1441)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain values in its RPC library. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the libvirt daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-2494)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled listing network interfaces under certain circumstances.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the libvirt daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2024-2496)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly set permissions on external inactive snapshots, making them world-readable. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-13193)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain characters in virtual network definitions. An authenticated user could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary configuration directives and execute arbitrary code as root. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-61477)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain XML input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the libvirt daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-61478)

 He Wei discovered that libvirt incorrectly followed symbolic links when changing file ownership. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-63622)

 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly set permissions on images during storage volume clone and convert operations, making them temporarily world-readable. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-63623)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8652-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 365450

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8652-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/13/2026

Updated: 10/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.48

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4147

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-clients-qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-direct, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-sheepdog, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-zfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-xen, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-lock, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-log, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-plugin-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system-systemd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system-sysv, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon-system, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-l10n, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-login-shell, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-ssh-proxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt-wireshark, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvirt0

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4147, CVE-2024-1441, CVE-2024-2494, CVE-2024-2496, CVE-2025-13193, CVE-2026-61477, CVE-2026-61478, CVE-2026-63622, CVE-2026-63623

IAVA: 2024-A-0184-S, 2025-A-0882-S, 2026-A-0997

USN: 8652-1