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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1296 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-04-02
Updated:
2020-04-02

RHSA-2020:1296 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link 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):

  • QEMU: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server (CVE-2020-1711)
  • QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu() (CVE-2020-7039)

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 OpenStack for IBM Power 13 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenStack 13 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1791551 - CVE-2020-7039 QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu()
  • BZ - 1794290 - CVE-2020-1711 QEMU: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-1711
  • CVE-2020-7039

References

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

Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 13

SRPM
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 4395973736cee694b1d2a37099ef02feb82c00185c1cbc8e086cb585d374db84
ppc64le
qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d9e4bf8887dc530abd37f35d3e93ea705be2f0a9f00483a29895e2d5322ab964
qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 806a0cf232bbd4fd675bf20197ac96a1f289bad92a3ddd67b26e7247e0a13595
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 9361effc8f824eb533a8fe2aae81e469308deffdaa8b31a82ba935ddbd99bc6d
qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-44.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: bb7be481a78b9d5523d64a7863202a2fa0cc4481aebfca8f14aee634c70fd67e
qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: e88ae51677db0ba2cc3a0d71cfeccaee015e7f5f334b92939702a6f7578abc7e

Red Hat OpenStack 13

SRPM
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 4395973736cee694b1d2a37099ef02feb82c00185c1cbc8e086cb585d374db84
x86_64
qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f92ab77d65b1ad1b6e5b06b2837bd0bcc39e7272367cafcb8a1e31428bfcb14c
qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 028ec5eb9fd8de46be5cda9ea89c4eb5d1058102c261f947ab733202f631abb1
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5acdfed77f0175353b997eb099894916bab931f0b7913652339ba6e30144ee4a
qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-44.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d43cadda81be6ff48097424f8fc68be2509b4c5a6f493556b6e050bd74d009c8
qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-44.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 65a77e21f9a571e92a37c3c309f4a2b20658e804dabb0beb4f7c87a6ea010cad

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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