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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4351-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4351-03 - An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_4351.json
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Low: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:4351-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4351
Issue date: 2024-07-08
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-4418
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Summary:
An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.
Description:
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:
- virt:rhel/libvirt: stack use-after-free in virNetClientIOEventLoop (CVE-2024-4418)
Bug fix:
- virsh destroy with --graceful destroyed a paused guest (qemu process paused by SIGSTOP) (JIRA:RHEL-36064)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2024-4418
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278616
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-36064
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