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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2018.3408
Low: qemu-kvm-ma security, bug fix, and enhancement update
31 October 2018
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: qemu-kvm-ma
Publisher: Red Hat
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2017-15124
Reference: ESB-2018.2111
ESB-2018.1620
Original Bulletin:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3062
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Low: qemu-kvm-ma security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3062-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3062
Issue date: 2018-10-30
CVE Names: CVE-2017-15124
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1. Summary:
An update for qemu-kvm-ma is Red Hatnow available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Low. 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:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - ppc64le, s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64
3. 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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
qemu-kvm-ma (2.12.0). (BZ#1562219)
Security Fix(es):
* Qemu: memory exhaustion through framebuffer update request message in VNC
server (CVE-2017-15124)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in
the References section.
This issue was discovered by Daniel Berrange (Red Hat).
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from 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/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1525195 - CVE-2017-15124 Qemu: memory exhaustion through framebuffer update request message in VNC server
1549079 - Migrate during reboot occasionally hangs in firmware with virtio-scsi:setup:inquiry...
1553775 - incorrect locking (possible use-after-free) with bug 1481593 fix
1554650 - [Regression] Cannot delete VM's snapshot
1572554 - [7.4-Alt] Unable to execute QEMU command 'dump-guest-memory': dump: failed to save memory
1595715 - Add ppa15/bpb to the default cpu model for z196 and higher in the 7.6 s390-ccw-virtio machine
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.src.rpm
ppc64:
qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:
qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7):
Source:
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le:
qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7):
Source:
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.src.rpm
aarch64:
qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.aarch64.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.aarch64.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.aarch64.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-18.el7.aarch64.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.aarch64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
ppc64:
qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64.rpm
qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-18.el7.ppc64.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-2017-15124
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
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