Product Errata

RLSA-2022:7967

Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update is available for qemu-kvm.

This update affects Rocky Linux 9.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm (7.0.0). (BZ#2064757)

Security Fix(es):

* QEMU: hcd-ehci: DMA reentrancy issue leads to use-after-free (CVE-2021-3750)

* QEMU: fdc: heap buffer overflow in DMA read data transfers (CVE-2021-3507)

* QEMU: intel-hda: segmentation fault due to stack overflow (CVE-2021-3611)

* QEMU: NULL pointer dereference in pci_write() in hw/acpi/pcihp.c (CVE-2021-4158)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Issued: 11/15/2022

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 9

Fixes

CVEs

References

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