Important: virt:rhel security update

Synopsis

Important: virt:rhel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu() (CVE-2020-7039)
  

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1791551 - CVE-2020-7039 QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu()

CVEs

• CVE-2020-7039

References

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