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Red Hat Virtualization 4 Update: RHSA-2018-1369-01 Addresses QEMU Security

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical's USN-2020-0761 introduces a significant kernel-update focusing on vulnerabilities and performance enhancements.
An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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

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):
* QEMU: i386: multiboot OOB access while loading kernel image (CVE-2018-7550)
* QEMU: cirrus: OOB access when updating VGA display (CVE-2018-7858)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Cyrille Chatras (Orange.com) and CERT-CC (Orange.com) for reporting CVE-2018-7550 and Ross Lagerwall (Citrix.com) for reporting CVE-2018-7858.
Bug Fix(es):
* In certain Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) guest configurations, virtual pass-through devices could not be removed properly. A reference count leak in the QEMU emulator has been removed, and the affected devices are now removed reliably. (BZ#1555213)
* Previously, a raw disk image that was using the "--preallocation=full" option in some cases could not be resized. This problem has been fixed and no longer occurs. (BZ#1566587)
* Due to race conditions in the virtio-blk and virtio-scsi services, the QEMU emulator sometimes terminated unexpectedly when shutting down. The race conditions have been removed, and QEMU now exits gracefully. (BZ#1566586)
* Prior to this update, deleting guest snapshots using the RHV GUI in some cases failed due to an incorrect image-seeking algorithm. This update fixes the underlying code, and guest snapshots in RHV can now be deleted successfully. (BZ#1566369)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7550 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7858 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts:
Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.src.rpm
ppc64le: qemu-img-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.2.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1369-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Issue date: 2018-05-10

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1549798 - CVE-2018-7550 QEMU: i386: multiboot OOB access while loading kernel image

1553402 - CVE-2018-7858 QEMU: cirrus: OOB access when updating VGA display

1555213 - [Q35] "DEVICE_DELETED" event didn't return after delete the second passthrough vf device [rhel-7.5.z]

1566369 - qemu-img commit fails with "block/file-posix.c:1774: find_allocation: Assertion `offs >= start' failed" [rhel-7.5.z]

1566586 - Occurred core dump with multi-object when quitted qemu during doing IO [rhel-7.5.z]

1566587 - Unable to resize image with preallocation=full mode [rhel-7.5.z]

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