Important: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

2024-07-0900:00:00

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osv.dev

virt:rhel

virt-devel:rhel

kvm

qemu

security update

cve-2024-4467

host file read/write

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.8%

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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(es):

qemu-kvm: QEMU: ‘qemu-img info’ leads to host file read/write (CVE-2024-4467)

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.