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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0516 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2018-03-13
Updated:
2018-03-13

RHSA-2018:0516 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Moderate: qemu-kvm security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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

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

Security Fix(es):

  • Qemu: cirrus: OOB access issue in mode4and5 write functions (CVE-2017-15289)

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.

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 Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1501290 - CVE-2017-15289 Qemu: cirrus: OOB access issue in mode4and5 write functions

CVEs

  • CVE-2017-15289

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm SHA-256: f4d3840ef50d37af3f61690698dad04bbc15eee56ddd11b3dc8128c891afc299
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3e881f9e788a14c5869488a919bbae1c3fb830f53fbd78ef62083d361bd6baf6
qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b40648384822ad7bbab8b2e1f1bdcdfc370a8c1bf44b59d861ac5c9b505fd3cf
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8a613adc16162b8982dbc11e37ed9c57826d1ce5cb55c0af8914b0427be8306
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eb9646d1d24bee9f8fbd619341dc6b091ed4413f6058f0c3fb57d8e203637822
qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 92f34d44b0463cda48a7dcf2803ea77580d7e25f84dd26eded2c57048270a7ce
i386
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm SHA-256: db0ff66481e535eeca37ca1196fb20aaf9147c407135b479866870b5a5633ed2
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm SHA-256: c99500e65591445388ecd0770e2c7afca525cb8178f0dc1267c1e5bc4f0d4bb4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm SHA-256: f4d3840ef50d37af3f61690698dad04bbc15eee56ddd11b3dc8128c891afc299
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3e881f9e788a14c5869488a919bbae1c3fb830f53fbd78ef62083d361bd6baf6
qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b40648384822ad7bbab8b2e1f1bdcdfc370a8c1bf44b59d861ac5c9b505fd3cf
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8a613adc16162b8982dbc11e37ed9c57826d1ce5cb55c0af8914b0427be8306
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eb9646d1d24bee9f8fbd619341dc6b091ed4413f6058f0c3fb57d8e203637822
qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 92f34d44b0463cda48a7dcf2803ea77580d7e25f84dd26eded2c57048270a7ce
i386
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm SHA-256: db0ff66481e535eeca37ca1196fb20aaf9147c407135b479866870b5a5633ed2
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm SHA-256: c99500e65591445388ecd0770e2c7afca525cb8178f0dc1267c1e5bc4f0d4bb4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm SHA-256: f4d3840ef50d37af3f61690698dad04bbc15eee56ddd11b3dc8128c891afc299
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3e881f9e788a14c5869488a919bbae1c3fb830f53fbd78ef62083d361bd6baf6
qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b40648384822ad7bbab8b2e1f1bdcdfc370a8c1bf44b59d861ac5c9b505fd3cf
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8a613adc16162b8982dbc11e37ed9c57826d1ce5cb55c0af8914b0427be8306
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eb9646d1d24bee9f8fbd619341dc6b091ed4413f6058f0c3fb57d8e203637822
qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 92f34d44b0463cda48a7dcf2803ea77580d7e25f84dd26eded2c57048270a7ce
i386
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm SHA-256: db0ff66481e535eeca37ca1196fb20aaf9147c407135b479866870b5a5633ed2
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm SHA-256: c99500e65591445388ecd0770e2c7afca525cb8178f0dc1267c1e5bc4f0d4bb4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm SHA-256: f4d3840ef50d37af3f61690698dad04bbc15eee56ddd11b3dc8128c891afc299
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3e881f9e788a14c5869488a919bbae1c3fb830f53fbd78ef62083d361bd6baf6
qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b40648384822ad7bbab8b2e1f1bdcdfc370a8c1bf44b59d861ac5c9b505fd3cf
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8a613adc16162b8982dbc11e37ed9c57826d1ce5cb55c0af8914b0427be8306
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eb9646d1d24bee9f8fbd619341dc6b091ed4413f6058f0c3fb57d8e203637822
qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 92f34d44b0463cda48a7dcf2803ea77580d7e25f84dd26eded2c57048270a7ce
i386
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm SHA-256: db0ff66481e535eeca37ca1196fb20aaf9147c407135b479866870b5a5633ed2
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm SHA-256: c99500e65591445388ecd0770e2c7afca525cb8178f0dc1267c1e5bc4f0d4bb4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm SHA-256: f4d3840ef50d37af3f61690698dad04bbc15eee56ddd11b3dc8128c891afc299
ppc64
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: add2b498f8895dbfe8f17ab38473b12ff039ccc9f9c4fdc391585708eb0bbb95
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 1637eb1cf99374b887c63af77b9c442fa484c846941e6ed77ebe00cff6a856f3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm SHA-256: f4d3840ef50d37af3f61690698dad04bbc15eee56ddd11b3dc8128c891afc299
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3e881f9e788a14c5869488a919bbae1c3fb830f53fbd78ef62083d361bd6baf6
qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b40648384822ad7bbab8b2e1f1bdcdfc370a8c1bf44b59d861ac5c9b505fd3cf
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8a613adc16162b8982dbc11e37ed9c57826d1ce5cb55c0af8914b0427be8306
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eb9646d1d24bee9f8fbd619341dc6b091ed4413f6058f0c3fb57d8e203637822
qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 92f34d44b0463cda48a7dcf2803ea77580d7e25f84dd26eded2c57048270a7ce

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