RHSA-2022:5821 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

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):

  • QEMU: QXL: integer overflow in cursor_alloc() can lead to heap buffer overflow (CVE-2021-4206)

  • QEMU: QXL: double fetch in qxl_cursor() can lead to heap buffer overflow (CVE-2021-4207)

  • QEMU: virtio-net: map leaking on error during receive (CVE-2022-26353)

  • 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):

  • RHEL 9.0 guest with vsock device migration failed from RHEL 9.0 > RHEL 8.6 (BZ#2071103)

  • Fail to rebuild the reference count tables of qcow2 image on host block devices (e.g. LVs) (BZ#2072242)

  • Remove upstream-only devices from the qemu-kvm binary (BZ#2077928)

  • When doing a cpu-baseline between skylake and cascadelake, cascadelake is selected as baseline. (BZ#2084030)

  • 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)

Related CVEs

RHSA-2022:5821 — Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update | PulseLinux