RHSA-2024:4757 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · July 24, 2024
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for libvirt 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) offers a full virtualization solution forLinux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packageswhich 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):
- libvirt: stack use-after-free in virNetClientIOEventLoop() (CVE-2024-4418)
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.