Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Security Advisory: Moderate
An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 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.
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm-rhev package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM in environments managed by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: qemu-kvm-rhev (2.6.0). (BZ#1386381)
Security Fix(es):
Red Hat would like to thank Donghai Zdh of Alibaba Inc. for reporting this issue.
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.