RHSA-2023:0432 — Security Advisory

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

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.

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: qxl_phys2virt unsafe address translation can lead to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2022-4144)

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):

• VMs hung on vnc_clipboard_send (BZ#2148505)

• qemuAgentGetDisks cannot parse response from a guest agent running in Windows VM (BZ#2152080)

• VMs requiring vTPM fails to create (BZ#2154413)

• Bad permissions for files shipped by libvirt-client (BZ#2157092)