Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20191881
Revision Date:2019-07-29Version:636
Title:RHSA-2019:1881: qemu-kvm-ma security and bug fix update (Important)
Description: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: device_tree: heap buffer overflow while loading device tree blob (CVE-2018-20815)

    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.

    Bug Fix(es):

  • As newer machine remove csske feature, detection of the processor fail and machine used old version as fallback. This update make feature conditional so detection of newer cpu works properly. (BZ#1720262)
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-20815
    RHSA-2019:1881
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
  • AND
  • qemu-img-ma is earlier than 10:2.12.0-18.el7_6.4
  • AND qemu-img-ma is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • qemu-kvm-common-ma is earlier than 10:2.12.0-18.el7_6.4
  • AND qemu-kvm-common-ma is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • qemu-kvm-ma is earlier than 10:2.12.0-18.el7_6.4
  • AND qemu-kvm-ma is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • qemu-kvm-tools-ma is earlier than 10:2.12.0-18.el7_6.4
  • AND qemu-kvm-tools-ma is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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