Topic

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

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: loader: OOB access while loading registered ROM may lead to code execution (CVE-2020-13765)
• QEMU: reachable assertion failure in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment() in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c (CVE-2020-16092)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• qemu-kvm FTBFS on rhel7.9 (BZ#1884997)

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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1842912 - CVE-2020-13765 QEMU: loader: OOB access while loading registered ROM may lead to code execution
• BZ - 1860283 - CVE-2020-16092 QEMU: reachable assertion failure in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment() in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c
• BZ - 1884997 - qemu-kvm FTBFS on rhel7.9

CVEs

• CVE-2020-13765
• CVE-2020-16092

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate