RHSA-2020:1505 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

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(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-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server (CVE-2020-1711)

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 for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64

Fixes

• BZ - 1794290 - CVE-2020-1711 QEMU: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1711

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/23/3