Important: virt:rhel security update

Synopsis

Important: virt:rhel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)
  
• QEMU: slirp: networking out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2020-10756)
  

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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1835986 - CVE-2020-10756 QEMU: slirp: networking out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability
• BZ - 1869201 - CVE-2020-14364 QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets

CVEs

• CVE-2020-10756
• CVE-2020-14364

References

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