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High ALSA-2026:18479 6 CVEs

Important: qemu-kvm security update

Published May 19, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

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):

* firefox: thunderbird: CSP Bypass and XSS Exposure via Web Compatibility Shims (CVE-2024-11694)
* firefox: thunderbird: Unhandled Exception in Add-on Signature Verification (CVE-2024-11696)
* firefox: thunderbird: Select list elements could be shown over another site (CVE-2024-11692)
* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 133, Thunderbird 133, Firefox ESR 128.5, and Thunderbird 128.5 (CVE-2024-11699)
* firefox: thunderbird: URL Bar Spoofing via Manipulated Punycode and Whitespace Characters (CVE-2024-11695)
* firefox: thunderbird: Improper Keypress Handling in Executable File Confirmation Dialog (CVE-2024-11697)

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-guest-agent 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-img 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-audio-pa 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-block-blkio 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-block-curl 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-block-rbd 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-common 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-core 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-usb-host 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-docs 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-tools 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-ui-opengl 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-pr-helper 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.alma.1

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11692
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11694
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11695
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11696
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11697
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11699
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2328941
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2328943
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2328946
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2328947
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2328948
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2328950
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-18479.html