Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update
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. Security Fix(es): * QEMU: SR-IOV: improper validation of NumVFs leads to buffer overflow (CVE-2024-26327) * QEMU: virtio: DMA reentrancy issue leads to double free vulnerability (CVE-2024-3446) * QEMU: Denial of Service via Improper Synchronization in QEMU NBD Server During Socket Closure (CVE-2024-7409) 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update
Description
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. Security Fix(es): * QEMU: SR-IOV: improper validation of NumVFs leads to buffer overflow (CVE-2024-26327) * QEMU: virtio: DMA reentrancy issue leads to double free vulnerability (CVE-2024-3446) * QEMU: Denial of Service via Improper Synchronization in QEMU NBD Server During Socket Closure (CVE-2024-7409) 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Affected software
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2024:9136
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2024-7409","CVE-2024-26327"]
Threat ID: 6a419cbb27e9c79719abefee
Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:19 UTC
Last enriched: 08/21/2026, 16:18:16 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:48 UTC
Views: 49
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