Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4373-03 - An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced mission critical Update Support.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:4373-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4373
Issue date: 2024-07-08
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-4467
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Summary:
An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced mission critical Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. 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-kvm: QEMU: 'qemu-img info' leads to host file read/write (CVE-2024-4467)
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.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2024-4467
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278875