A qemu-kvm-rhev security update has been released for the Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts.
RHSA-2021:0459-01: Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0459-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0459
Issue date: 2021-02-09
Keywords: Security
CVE Names: CVE-2020-1983 CVE-2020-16092
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1. Summary:
An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. 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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
RHV-M 4.3 - x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts - ppc64le, x86_64
3. Description:
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: use-after-free in ip_reass() function in ip_input.c
(CVE-2020-1983)
* QEMU: reachable assertion failure in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment() in
hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c (CVE-2020-16092)
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.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891
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.
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1829825 - CVE-2020-1983 QEMU: slirp: use-after-free in ip_reass() function in ip_input.c
1860283 - CVE-2020-16092 QEMU: reachable assertion failure in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment() in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c
6. Package List:
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts:
Source:
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.src.rpm
ppc64le:
qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
RHV-M 4.3:
Source:
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.src.rpm
x86_64:
qemu-img-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.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/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1983
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16092
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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