Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:Rocky Linux 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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm (6.2.0). (BZ#2066828)
Security Fix(es):
QEMU: fdc: heap buffer overflow in DMA read data transfers (CVE-2021-3507)
libvirt: missing locking in nwfilterConnectNumOfNWFilters can lead to denial of service (CVE-2022-0897)
libguestfs: Buffer overflow in get_keys leads to DoS (CVE-2022-2211)
swtpm: Unchecked header size indicator against expected size (CVE-2022-23645)
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 Rocky Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.