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Red Hat 8: RHSA-2023-0099-01 Moderate: virt:rhel Security Issue

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A notification concerning intermediate security enhancements for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules within Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which 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: QXL: qxl_phys2virt unsafe address translation can lead to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2022-4144)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* libvirt kills virtual machine on restart when 2M and 1G hugepages are mounted (BZ#2132176)
* VMs hung on vnc_clipboard_send (BZ#2148504)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update red hat kernel virt:rhel

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4144 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: SLOF-20210217-1.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm hivex-1.3.18-23.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm libguestfs-1.44.0-9.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.6-1.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-8.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm libnbd-1.6.0-5.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm libtpms-0.9.1-1.20211126git1ff6fe1f43.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm libvirt-8.0.0-10.1.module+el8.7.0+17192+cbc2449b.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.3.0-2.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm libvirt-python-8.0.0-2.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm nbdkit-1.24.0-4.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-12.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-8.0.0-1.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm qemu-kvm-6.2.0-21.module+el8.7.0+17573+effbd7e8.2.src.rpm seabios-1.16.0-3.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-3.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm supermin-5.2.1-2.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm swtpm-0.7.0-4.20211109gitb79fd91.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm virt-v2v-1.42.0-21.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.src.rpm
aarch64: hivex-1.3.18-23.module+el8.7.0+16689+53d59bc2.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0099-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0099
Issue date: 2023-01-12

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update red hat kernel virt:rhel

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2132176 - libvirt kills virtual machine on restart when 2M and 1G hugepages are mounted [rhel-8.7.0.z]

2148506 - CVE-2022-4144 QEMU: QXL: qxl_phys2virt unsafe address translation can lead to out-of-bounds read

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