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Red Hat OpenStack 10.0 Important: RHSA-2018-2822 Heap Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Keep your infrastructure protected by implementing the most recent qemu-kvm-rhev patch released by Red Hat, which resolves urgent security vulnerabilities.
An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton), Red Ha...

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: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams (CVE-2018-11806)
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 Jskz - Zero Day Initiative (trendmicro.com) for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow heap overflow important update QEMU-KVM Red Hat OpenStack

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11806 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:
Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.src.rpm
x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0:
Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.src.rpm
ppc64le: qemu-img-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0:
Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.src.rpm
ppc64le: qemu-img-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.6.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2822-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2822
Issue date: 2018-09-27

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform8.0 (Liberty), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka), Red Hat OpenStackPlatform 10.0 (Newton), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike), and Red HatOpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow heap overflow important update QEMU-KVM Red Hat OpenStack

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - x86_64

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) - x86_64

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1586245 - CVE-2018-11806 QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams

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