Summary
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution forLinux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packageswhich 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: Crash of virtinterfaced via virConnectListInterfaces() (CVE-2024-8235)
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 Rocky Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
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| Rocky Linux · 9 | libvirt | 0:10.5.0-7.4.el9_5 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.2
Libvirt: crash of virtinterfaced via virconnectlistinterfaces()
A flaw was found in libvirt. A refactor of the code fetching the list of interfaces for multiple APIs introduced a corner case on platforms where allocating 0 bytes of memory results in a NULL pointer. This corner case would lead to a NULL-pointer dereference…
References
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report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308680