RHSA-2024:9136 — Security Advisory

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.

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.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: SR-IOV: improper validation of NumVFs leads to buffer overflow (CVE-2024-26327)

• QEMU: virtio: DMA reentrancy issue leads to double free vulnerability (CVE-2024-3446)

• QEMU: Denial of Service via Improper Synchronization in QEMU NBD Server During Socket Closure (CVE-2024-7409)

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 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.