Topic: The updated Advanced Virtualization module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2.1 Advanced Virtualization. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section

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Details: The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products. Security Fix(es): * A flaw was found in the QEMU disk image utility (qemu-img) 'info' command. A specially crafted image file containing a `json:{}` value describing block devices in QMP could cause the qemu-img process on the host to consume large amounts of memory or CPU time, leading to denial of service or read/write to an existing external file. (CVE-2024-4467) 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.

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