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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4048 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-09-29
Updated:
2020-09-29

RHSA-2020:4048 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: qemu-kvm 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 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced 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 packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es):

  • QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)

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 - AUS 7.2 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1869201 - CVE-2020-14364 QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-14364

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 Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.2

SRPM
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.src.rpm SHA-256: 8145d99435212f317b82e23559aa59ff5c15d6e57201f049648fa15552836d02
x86_64
libcacard-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.i686.rpm SHA-256: ae2bad8f351287c627e292236429b5071d92c048aff5783e3df1f5ea5ebee659
libcacard-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 10efea5af95eda7097ebdc665c84f61d066cbb67f2051ffdef8c7ab8f72a959c
libcacard-devel-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7fd604c73873077e438d431748a84f5b32eb8ee508f2a599dd98319ee3df38f1
libcacard-devel-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fdff10e9e58215a9e417b9167378d695db85445162cf676e9fe86965c2244dfa
libcacard-tools-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7a77a170b64406134066493c660f730c3f57d190fa66c763786526cb2d1adc1c
qemu-img-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f5e93f8588e6be875f34c379b17148c722b5addc605c9911834beadb0d76c72d
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 785d1f946d9235085b37e45224ba3d05b43a4a628e08e06f68edf3396494ddf7
qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3d1134408bb230f4fe7cf6dc72da4bce9865cdce215ad12ec734abf3fa8f1caf
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6506440f7e14693417a862ddbda921da2fd824cba307f4fda6b608c11ddad2f7
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6506440f7e14693417a862ddbda921da2fd824cba307f4fda6b608c11ddad2f7
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c1634a431083d368b4195d1de8e0a2a977a66d254c82ece42b0d096af6a3b9d4
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c1634a431083d368b4195d1de8e0a2a977a66d254c82ece42b0d096af6a3b9d4
qemu-kvm-tools-1.5.3-105.el7_2.20.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1a40fc02cdf3a3b7d2273db29a5d95a0b7ebfab493ff99765df3b158984d555c

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