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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-2892:01 Important: qemu-kvm Heap Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat issues an important security advisory for qemu-kvm addressing heap overflow issues with essential update measures.
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: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams (CVE-2018-11806)
* QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() (CVE-2019-6778)
* QEMU: ne2000: integer overflow leads to buffer overflow issue (CVE-2018-10839)
* QEMU: pcnet: integer overflow leads to buffer overflow (CVE-2018-17962)
* QEMU: qxl: null pointer dereference while releasing spice resources (CVE-2019-12155)
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 important heap overflow buffer issue qemu-kvm

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10839 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11806 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17962 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6778 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12155 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.src.rpm
i386: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.i686.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.i686.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.src.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.src.rpm
i386: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.i686.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.i686.rpm
ppc64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.ppc64.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2892-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2892
Issue date: 2019-09-24

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 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important heap overflow buffer issue qemu-kvm

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

1581013 - CVE-2018-10839 QEMU: ne2000: integer overflow leads to buffer overflow issue

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

1636773 - CVE-2018-17962 QEMU: pcnet: integer overflow leads to buffer overflow

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

1712670 - CVE-2019-12155 QEMU: qxl: null pointer dereference while releasing spice resources

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