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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020-4055-01 Urgent QEMU-KVM Security Patch

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent patch released for qemu-kvm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 targeting significant vulnerabilities identified.
An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support

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: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)
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 Red Hat security fix important update virtualization out-of-bounds access qemu-kvm

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14364 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.9.src.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.9.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.9.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.9.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.9.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.9.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-2020:4055-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4055
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6Advanced Update Support.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 Red Hat security fix important update virtualization out-of-bounds access qemu-kvm

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1869201 - CVE-2020-14364 QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets

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