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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: RHSA-2023-3715 Moderate Memory Leak in Libvirt

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New update released for libvirt on Red Hat, addressing a moderate security risk stemming from a memory leak vulnerability. Discover further details.
An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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

After installing the updated packages, libvirtd will be restarted automatically.

Summary

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems.
Security Fix(es):
* libvirt: Memory leak in virPCIVirtualFunctionList cleanup (CVE-2023-2700)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update moderate severity memory leak virtualization libvirt

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2700 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: libvirt-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.src.rpm
aarch64: libvirt-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-client-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-client-debuginfo-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-config-network-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-debuginfo-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-debuginfo-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-network-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-network-debuginfo-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-debuginfo-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-debuginfo-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-debuginfo-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-9.0.0-10.2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3715-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3715
Issue date: 2023-06-21

Topic

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 Red Hat update moderate severity memory leak virtualization libvirt

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2203653 - CVE-2023-2700 libvirt: Memory leak in virPCIVirtualFunctionList cleanup

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