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Crucial Qemu-Kvm-Rhev Update RHSA-2019-2425-01 for Red Hat OpenStack

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical publishes an essential update for lxd-container which addresses vulnerabilities and bugs found in various cloud environments.
An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens), and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky)

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 in tcp_emu() (CVE-2019-6778)
* QEMU: rtl8139: integer overflow leads to buffer overflow (CVE-2018-17958)
* QEMU: net: ignore packets with large size (CVE-2018-17963)
* QEMU: seccomp: blacklist is not applied to all threads (CVE-2018-15746)
* QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request (CVE-2019-6501)
* QEMU: slirp: information leakage in tcp_emu() due to uninitialized stack variables (CVE-2019-9824)
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):
* Update qemu-kvm-rhev for RHEL 7.7 compatibility [OSP-14] (BZ#1728358)
* Update qemu-kvm-rhev for RHEL 7.7 compatibility [OSP-13] (BZ#1728359)
* Update qemu-kvm-rhev for RHEL 7.7 compatibility [OSP-10] (BZ#1728360)

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat bug fix important heap overflow cloud platform qemu-kvm-rhev

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15746 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17958 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17963 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6501 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6778 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9824 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:
Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0:
Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0:
Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2425-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2425
Issue date: 2019-08-09

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform10.0 (Newton), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens), and Red HatOpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky).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 red hat bug fix important heap overflow cloud platform qemu-kvm-rhev

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - x86_64

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1615637 - CVE-2018-15746 QEMU: seccomp: blacklist is not applied to all threads

1636712 - CVE-2018-17958 QEMU: rtl8139: integer overflow leads to buffer overflow

1636777 - CVE-2018-17963 QEMU: net: ignore packets with large size

1664205 - CVE-2019-6778 QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu()

1668160 - CVE-2019-6501 QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request

1678515 - CVE-2019-9824 QEMU: slirp: information leakage in tcp_emu() due to uninitialized stack variables

1728358 - Update qemu-kvm-rhev for RHEL 7.7 compatibility [OSP-14]

1728359 - Update qemu-kvm-rhev for RHEL 7.7 compatibility [OSP-13]

1728360 - Update qemu-kvm-rhev for RHEL 7.7 compatibility [OSP-10]

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