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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-35517: Important: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update (ALSA-2021-0711)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-35517: Important: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update (ALSA-2021-0711)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/28/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/13/2022

Description

A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-hivex
  • alma-upgrade-hivex-devel
  • alma-upgrade-libguestfs-winsupport
  • alma-upgrade-libiscsi
  • alma-upgrade-libiscsi-devel
  • alma-upgrade-libiscsi-utils
  • alma-upgrade-libnbd
  • alma-upgrade-libnbd-devel
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-admin
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-bash-completion
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-client
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-config-network
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-interface
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-network
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-secret
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-direct
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-dbus
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-devel
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-docs
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-libs
  • alma-upgrade-libvirt-nss
  • alma-upgrade-nbdfuse
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-bash-completion
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-basic-filters
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-basic-plugins
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-curl-plugin
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-devel
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-example-plugins
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-gzip-plugin
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-python-plugin
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-server
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-ssh-plugin
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-vddk-plugin
  • alma-upgrade-nbdkit-xz-filter
  • alma-upgrade-netcf
  • alma-upgrade-netcf-devel
  • alma-upgrade-netcf-libs
  • alma-upgrade-ocaml-hivex
  • alma-upgrade-ocaml-hivex-devel
  • alma-upgrade-ocaml-libguestfs
  • alma-upgrade-ocaml-libguestfs-devel
  • alma-upgrade-ocaml-libnbd
  • alma-upgrade-ocaml-libnbd-devel
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Sys-Virt
  • alma-upgrade-perl-hivex
  • alma-upgrade-python3-hivex
  • alma-upgrade-python3-libnbd
  • alma-upgrade-python3-libvirt
  • alma-upgrade-ruby-hivex
  • alma-upgrade-seabios
  • alma-upgrade-seabios-bin
  • alma-upgrade-seavgabios-bin
  • alma-upgrade-sgabios
  • alma-upgrade-sgabios-bin
  • alma-upgrade-supermin
  • alma-upgrade-supermin-devel

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