#1076139 qemu-guest-agent: Allow to configure qemu-ga

Package:
qemu-guest-agent
Source:
qemu-guest-agent
Description:
Guest-side qemu-system agent
Submitter:
Laurent Bigonville
Date:
2025-08-13 07:27:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1076139#5
Date:
2024-07-11 10:31:51 UTC
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To:
Hello,

The service file qemu-guest-agent is not allowing to customize the
options.

Worst it seems that it's not blacklisting some of the RPC calls by
default

If I look at what fedora is doing it allows that and even does it by
default:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qemu/blob/rawhide/f/qemu-guest-agent.service
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qemu/blob/rawhide/f/qemu-ga.sysconfig

That should be added

I'm also wondering whether this is not a security issue too

Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville

#1076139#12
Date:
2024-07-11 11:46:36 UTC
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To:
#1076139#17
Date:
2025-08-13 07:25:18 UTC
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Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tag -1 confirmed
I take the .service file from the upstream qemu.  I don't see this is a
security issue, since the host can control all aspects of all the guests
anyway, as it can access whole guest memory and everything else, --
trying to protect a guest from access from the host is futile.

Thanks,

/mjt