Synopsis

Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3.

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

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: slirp: use-after-free in ip_reass() function in ip_input.c (CVE-2020-1983)
• 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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

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 Virtualization Manager 4.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1829825 - CVE-2020-1983 QEMU: slirp: use-after-free in ip_reass() function in ip_input.c
• BZ - 1860283 - CVE-2020-16092 QEMU: reachable assertion failure in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment() in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1983
• CVE-2020-16092

References