Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm (7.2.0). (BZ#2111769, BZ#2135806)

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: VNC: integer underflow in vnc_client_cut_text_ext leads to CPU exhaustion (CVE-2022-3165)
• QEMU: ACPI ERST: memory corruption issues in read_erst_record and write_erst_record (CVE-2022-4172)

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.