{"id":"RLSA-2024:2962","summary":"Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and enhancement update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* QEMU: VNC: infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (CVE-2023-3255)\n\n* QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite (CVE-2023-5088)\n\n* QEMU: VNC: NULL pointer dereference in qemu_clipboard_request() (CVE-2023-6683)\n\n* QEMU: virtio-net: stack buffer overflow in virtio_net_flush_tx() (CVE-2023-6693)\n\nFor 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.\n\nAdditional Changes:\n\nFor detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References 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