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Medium RLSA-2023:3822 1 CVE

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

Published Aug 31, 2023 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

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):

* libvirt: Memory leak in virPCIVirtualFunctionList cleanup (CVE-2023-2700)

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):

* Logs are spammed with ' Domain id=7 is tainted: custom-ga-command' message (BZ#2180030)

* [qemu] snapshot is failing with error libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: QEMU monitor reply exceeds buffer size (10485760 bytes) (BZ#2181575)

Fixed packages 18

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 hivex 0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 libguestfs 1:1.44.0-9.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115.rocky
Rocky Linux · 8 libguestfs-winsupport 0:8.8-1.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 libiscsi 0:1.18.0-8.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 libnbd 0:1.6.0-5.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 libtpms 0:0.9.1-2.20211126git1ff6fe1f43.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 libvirt 0:8.0.0-19.2.module+el8.8.0+1321+70d049b2
Rocky Linux · 8 libvirt-dbus 0:1.3.0-2.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 libvirt-python 0:8.0.0-2.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 nbdkit 0:1.24.0-5.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 netcf 0:0.2.8-12.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 perl-Sys-Virt 0:8.0.0-1.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 qemu-kvm 5:6.2.0-32.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 seabios 0:1.16.0-3.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 sgabios 1:0.20170427git-3.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 supermin 0:5.2.1-2.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 swtpm 0:0.7.0-4.20211109gitb79fd91.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115
Rocky Linux · 8 virt-v2v 1:1.42.0-22.module+el8.8.0+1279+230c2115

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180030
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181575
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2203653