RHSA-2022:5821 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 2, 2022
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
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):
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QEMU: QXL: integer overflow in cursor_alloc() can lead to heap buffer overflow (CVE-2021-4206)
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QEMU: QXL: double fetch in qxl_cursor() can lead to heap buffer overflow (CVE-2021-4207)
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QEMU: virtio-net: map leaking on error during receive (CVE-2022-26353)
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QEMU: vhost-vsock: missing virtqueue detach on error can lead to memory leak (CVE-2022-26354)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
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RHEL 9.0 guest with vsock device migration failed from RHEL 9.0 > RHEL 8.6 (BZ#2071103)
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Fail to rebuild the reference count tables of qcow2 image on host block devices (e.g. LVs) (BZ#2072242)
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Remove upstream-only devices from the qemu-kvm binary (BZ#2077928)
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When doing a cpu-baseline between skylake and cascadelake, cascadelake is selected as baseline. (BZ#2084030)
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Virt-v2v can't convert rhel8.6 guest from VMware on rhel8.6 (BZ#2093415)
Enhancement(s):
- Allow memory prealloc from multiple threads (BZ#2075569)