Important: qemu-kvm security update

Synopsis

Important: qemu-kvm security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)
  
• QEMU: slirp: use-after-free in ip_reass() function in ip_input.c (CVE-2020-1983)
  

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

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 Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1829825 - CVE-2020-1983 QEMU: slirp: use-after-free in ip_reass() function in ip_input.c
• BZ - 1869201 - CVE-2020-14364 QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1983
• CVE-2020-14364

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869693
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1837565