RHSA-2024:2962MediumCVSS 6.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and enhancement update

Published
May 22, 2024
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2023-3255 →CVE-2023-5088 →CVE-2023-6683 →CVE-2023-6693 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-3255 — QEMU: VNC: infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service CVE-2023-5088 — QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite CVE-2023-6683 — QEMU: VNC: NULL pointer dereference in qemu_clipboard_request() CVE-2023-6693 — QEMU: virtio-net: stack buffer overflow in virtio_net_flush_tx()

🎯 Affected products200

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • SLOF-0:20210217-2.module+el8.10.0+20141+6faa2812.noarch (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • SLOF-0:20210217-2.module+el8.10.0+20141+6faa2812.src (virt-devel:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • SLOF-0:20210217-2.module+el8.10.0+20141+6faa2812.src (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.aarch64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.i686 (virt-devel:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • hivex-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.ppc64le (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.s390x (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.src (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.x86_64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-debuginfo-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.aarch64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-debuginfo-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.i686 (virt-devel:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • hivex-debuginfo-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.ppc64le (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-debuginfo-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.s390x (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-debuginfo-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.x86_64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-debugsource-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.aarch64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-debugsource-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.i686 (virt-devel:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • hivex-debugsource-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.ppc64le (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-debugsource-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.s390x (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-debugsource-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.x86_64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-devel-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.aarch64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-devel-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.i686 (virt-devel:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • hivex-devel-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.ppc64le (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-devel-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.s390x (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • hivex-devel-0:1.3.18-23.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.x86_64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • libguestfs-1:1.44.0-9.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.aarch64 (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • libguestfs-1:1.44.0-9.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.ppc64le (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • libguestfs-1:1.44.0-9.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.s390x (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • libguestfs-1:1.44.0-9.module+el8.9.0+18724+20190c23.src (virt:rhel) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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