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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: qemu-kvm security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:9136-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9136
Issue date:         2024-11-12
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2024-3446
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Summary: 

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.

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.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2024-3446

References:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.5_release_notes/index
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264844
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274211
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302487
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17719
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-21695
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24024
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28073
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28686
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28813
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-30362
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-33440
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-33889
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-34618
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-34621
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-34945
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-36159
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-38697
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-40708
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-42411
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-50000