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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-4058-01 Important: USB Issue

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Familiarize yourself with the critical security patch for the virt:rhel component in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, targeting a vulnerability related to USB functionality.
An update for the virt:rhel module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.
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 important package updates kernel-based virtual machine virt:rhel usb issue

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0):
Source: SLOF-20171214-6.gitfa98132.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm hivex-1.3.15-7.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm libguestfs-1.38.4-11.1.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.0-3.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-7.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm libssh2-1.8.0-8.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.1.src.rpm libvirt-4.5.0-24.3.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.2.0-3.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm libvirt-python-4.5.0-2.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm nbdkit-1.4.2-5.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-11.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-4.5.0-5.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm qemu-kvm-2.12.0-65.module+el8.0.0+8039+11900c43.9.src.rpm seabios-1.11.1-4.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-3.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm supermin-5.1.19-9.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.src.rpm
aarch64: hivex-1.3.15-7.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.aarch64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.15-7.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.aarch64.rpm hivex-debugsource-1.3.15-7.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.aarch64.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.15-7.module+el8.0.0+4084+cceb9f44.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4058-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4058
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel module is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 important package updates kernel-based virtual machine virt:rhel usb issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, 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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