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RedHat: RHSA-2020-0555-01 Moderate: virt:8.1 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Delve into the recent security enhancement targeting virt:8.1 modules in RHEL, aimed at bolstering your virtualization defenses.
An update for the virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0

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

Summary

The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM hypervisor in environments managed by Red Hat products.
Security Fix(es):
* hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)
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 moderate security update RHEL virtualization virt-devel

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11135 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/solutions/tsx-asynchronousabort

Package List

Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0:
Source: SLOF-20190703-1.gitba1ab360.module+el8.1.0+3730+7d905127.src.rpm hivex-1.3.15-7.module+el8.1.0+3554+1a3a94a6.src.rpm libguestfs-1.40.2-14.module+el8.1.0+4754+8d38b36b.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.0-4.module+el8.1.0+3554+1a3a94a6.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-8.module+el8.1.0+3554+1a3a94a6.src.rpm libtpms-0.6.1-0.20190121git9dc915572b.module+el8.1.0+3523+b348b848.2.src.rpm libvirt-5.6.0-6.2.module+el8.1.0+4953+432c8346.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.3.0-2.module+el8.1.0+3554+1a3a94a6.src.rpm libvirt-python-5.6.0-2.module+el8.1.0+4754+8d38b36b.src.rpm nbdkit-1.12.5-1.module+el8.1.0+3868+35f94834.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-12.module+el8.1.0+3921+a49f7d7b.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-5.6.0-2.module+el8.1.0+4754+8d38b36b.src.rpm qemu-kvm-4.1.0-14.module+el8.1.0+5346+c31201bb.1.src.rpm seabios-1.12.0-5.module+el8.1.0+4754+8d38b36b.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-3.module+el8.1.0+3554+1a3a94a6.src.rpm supermin-5.1.19-10.module+el8.1.0+4754+8d38b36b.src.rpm swtpm-0.1.0-1.20190425gitca85606.module+el8.1.0+3966+4a23dca1.1.src.rpm virglrenderer-0.6.0-5.20180814git491d3b705.module+el8.1.0+3523+b348b848.src.rpm
aarch64: hivex-1.3.15-7.module+el8.1.0+3554+1a3a94a6.aarch64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.15-7.module+el8.1.0+3554+1a3a94a6.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0555-01
Product: Advanced Virtualization
Advisory URL: Issue date: 2020-02-19

Topic

An update for the virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 modules is now available forAdvanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update RHEL virtualization virt-devel

Relevant Releases Architectures

Advanced Virtualization CodeReady Builder for RHEL 8.1.0 - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0 - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1753062 - CVE-2019-11135 hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)

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