Important: virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Important: virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for the virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.2.1.

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

The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)
  

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• move the glusterfs dependency out of qemu-kvm-core to the glusterfs module (BZ#1877431)

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 Advanced Virtualization 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization (for RHEL Server for ARM 64) 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization (for RHEL Server for IBM System Z) 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1869201 - CVE-2020-14364 QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets
• BZ - 1877431 - move the glusterfs dependency out of qemu-kvm-core to the glusterfs module

CVEs

• CVE-2020-14364

References

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