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A qemu security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: qemu-7.2.1-2.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-e5a35f7197
2023-05-16 01:20:46.491304
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Name : qemu
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 7.2.1
Release : 2.fc38
URL :   http://www.qemu.org/
Summary : QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator
Description :
qemu is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware
emulation for the KVM hypervisor. qemu acts as a virtual
machine monitor together with the KVM kernel modules, and emulates the
hardware for a full system such as a PC and its associated peripherals.

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Update Information:

qga/win32: Fix local privilege escalation issue (CVE-2023-0664) (rhbz#2175700)
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr 21 2023 Mauro Matteo Cascella - 2:7.2.1-2
- qga/win32: Fix local privilege escalation issue (CVE-2023-0664) (rhbz#2175700)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2175700 - CVE-2023-0664 qemu: local privilege escalation via the QEMU Guest Agent on Windows [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2175700
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-e5a35f7197' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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