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RedHat: RHSA-2019-3968-01 Important: qemu-kvm-ma Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2019
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Get essential details regarding the qemu-kvm-ma security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, classified with High severity.
An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available 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

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures.
Security Fix(es):
* QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow during packet reassembly (CVE-2019-14378)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat heap overflow security impact importance qemu-kvm-ma

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.src.rpm
ppc64: qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.s390x.rpm qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.s390x.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.s390x.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.s390x.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
ppc64: qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-33.el7_7.1.ppc64.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-2019:3968-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3968
Issue date: 2019-11-26

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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 heap overflow security impact importance qemu-kvm-ma

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64

Bugs Fixed

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

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