Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4724-03 - An update for the virt:av and virt-devel:av modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.4.0.EUS.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: virt:av and virt-devel:av security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:4724-03
Product: Advanced Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4724
Issue date: 2024-07-23
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-4467
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Summary:
An update for the virt:av and virt-devel:av modules is now available for
Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.4.0.EUS.
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:
The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.
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