ALSA-2023:2162

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    ALSA-2023:2162

    Published: 9 May 2023Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

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

    Details: 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.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2162, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3165, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4172, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2129739, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2149105, https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-2162.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qemu-guest-agent

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/qemu-guest-agent

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -17:7.2.0-14.el9_2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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