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

2024-06-1413:59:30

Google

osv.dev

kvm

linux

user-space

virtual machines

apis

security update.

6.2 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.5%

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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: negative g_new0 length can lead to unbounded memory allocation (CVE-2024-2494)

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.