Important: qemu-kvm-rhev bug fix update

Synopsis

Important: qemu-kvm-rhev bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization for Red Hat Virtualization Host 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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):

• CVE-2020-8608 QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages
  
• CVE-2020-7039 QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu()
  
• CVE-2019-14378 QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow during packet reassembly
  

This update fixes the following bug:

• BZ 1804577 Backport: Passthrough host CPU microcode version to KVM guest if using CPU passthrough to RHEL 7.7/7.8 [rhel-7.6.z]
  

Users of qemu-kvm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. 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.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1734745 - CVE-2019-14378 QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow during packet reassembly
• BZ - 1791551 - CVE-2020-7039 QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu()
• BZ - 1798453 - CVE-2020-8608 QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages
• BZ - 1804577 - Backport: Passthrough host CPU microcode version to KVM guest if using CPU passthrough to RHEL 7.7/7.8 [rhel-7.6.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2019-14378
• CVE-2020-7039
• CVE-2020-8608

References

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