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Red Hat OpenStack 13.0: RHSA-2019-3787-01 Critical Qemu-KVM-RHEV Patch

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security patch for qemu-kvm-rhev within Red Hat OpenStack Platform tackles significant flaws and vulnerabilities.
An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Importan...

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 during packet reassembly (CVE-2019-14378)
* 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 heap overflow important update KVM security Red Hat OpenStack qemu-kvm-rhev null pointer dereference

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12155 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14378 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0:
Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.src.rpm
ppc64le: qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-33.el7_7.4.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3787-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3787
Issue date: 2019-11-07

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory heap overflow important update KVM security Red Hat OpenStack qemu-kvm-rhev null pointer dereference

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

1734745 - CVE-2019-14378 QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow during packet reassembly

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