Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:6964-01 (virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel) [LWN.net]

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution forLinux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packageswhich provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM.The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems. Security Fix(es): * 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) * libnbd: NBD server improper certificate validation (CVE-2024-7383) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

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