Synopsis

Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7 and RHEV 4.X RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

Description

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.

Security Fix(es):

• An assertion-failure flaw was found in the Network Block Device (NBD) server's initial connection negotiation, where the I/O co-routine was undefined. This could crash the qemu-nbd server if a client sent unexpected data during connection negotiation. A remote user or process could use this flaw to crash the qemu-nbd server resulting in denial of service. (CVE-2017-7539)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, shut down all running virtual machines. Once all virtual machines have shut down, start them again for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 3 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1473622 - CVE-2017-7539 Qemu: qemu-nbd crashes due to undefined I/O coroutine
• BZ - 1482515 - [Tracing] capturing trace data failed [rhel-7.4.z]
• BZ - 1482851 - Requires for the seabios version that support vIOMMU of virtio [rhel-7.4.z]
• BZ - 1482856 - Unable to start vhost if iommu_platform=on but intel_iommu=on not specified in guest [rhel-7.4.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2017-7539

References