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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and enhancement update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:2962-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2962
Issue date:         2024-05-22
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-3255
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Summary: 

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules 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.




Description:

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: VNC: infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (CVE-2023-3255)

* QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite (CVE-2023-5088)

* QEMU: VNC: NULL pointer dereference in qemu_clipboard_request() (CVE-2023-6683)

* QEMU: virtio-net: stack buffer overflow in virtio_net_flush_tx() (CVE-2023-6693)

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.


Solution:

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



CVEs:

CVE-2023-3255

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.10_release_notes/index
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218486
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247283
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254580
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254825
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-18214
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-20189
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-2600
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-3709
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-7353