RHSA-2023:6368 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 7, 2023

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm (8.0.0). (BZ#2180898)

Security Fix(es):

  • QEMU: hcd-ehci: DMA reentrancy issue (incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3750) (CVE-2023-2680)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:6368 — Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update | PulseLinux