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Medium RLSA-2023:0099 1 CVE

Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and bug fix update

Published Jan 12, 2023 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for
Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:Rocky Linux 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: QXL: qxl_phys2virt unsafe address translation can lead to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2022-4144)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* libvirt kills virtual machine on restart when 2M and 1G hugepages are mounted (BZ#2132176)

* VMs hung on vnc_clipboard_send (BZ#2148504)

Fixed packages 30

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 hivex 0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 hivex 0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 libguestfs 1:1.44.0-9.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61.rocky
Rocky Linux · 8 libguestfs-winsupport 0:8.6-1.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 libguestfs-winsupport 0:8.6-1.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 libiscsi 0:1.18.0-8.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 libiscsi 0:1.18.0-8.module+el8.4.0+534+4680a14e
Rocky Linux · 8 libiscsi 0:1.18.0-8.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 libnbd 0:1.6.0-5.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 libnbd 0:1.6.0-5.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 libtpms 0:0.9.1-1.20211126git1ff6fe1f43.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 libvirt 0:8.0.0-10.1.module+el8.7.0+1125+fc135c6d
Rocky Linux · 8 libvirt-dbus 0:1.3.0-2.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 libvirt-dbus 0:1.3.0-2.module+el8.4.0+534+4680a14e
Rocky Linux · 8 libvirt-dbus 0:1.3.0-2.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 libvirt-python 0:8.0.0-2.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 nbdkit 0:1.24.0-4.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 netcf 0:0.2.8-12.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 netcf 0:0.2.8-12.module+el8.4.0+534+4680a14e
Rocky Linux · 8 netcf 0:0.2.8-12.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 perl-Sys-Virt 0:8.0.0-1.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 perl-Sys-Virt 0:8.0.0-1.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 qemu-kvm 5:6.2.0-21.module+el8.7.0+1125+fc135c6d.2
Rocky Linux · 8 seabios 0:1.16.0-3.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 sgabios 1:0.20170427git-3.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 sgabios 1:0.20170427git-3.module+el8.4.0+534+4680a14e
Rocky Linux · 8 sgabios 1:0.20170427git-3.module+el8.6.0+847+b490afdd
Rocky Linux · 8 supermin 0:5.2.1-2.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 swtpm 0:0.7.0-4.20211109gitb79fd91.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61
Rocky Linux · 8 virt-v2v 1:1.42.0-21.module+el8.7.0+1084+97b81f61

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2132176
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2148506