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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-0049-01 Important: qemu-kvm Vulnerability Fix

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2018
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Canonical has issued a Significant security patch for lxc affecting Ubuntu 18.04 to rectify severe vulnerabilities.
An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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.

Summary

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: cirrus: OOB access issue in mode4and5 write functions (CVE-2017-15289)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update security issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux qemu-kvm kernel virtualisation

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15289 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm
i386: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.src.rpm
i386: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.i686.rpm
ppc64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.ppc64.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.503.el6_9.5.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0516-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0516
Issue date: 2018-03-13

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update security issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux qemu-kvm kernel virtualisation

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1501290 - CVE-2017-15289 Qemu: cirrus: OOB access issue in mode4and5 write functions

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