RedHat QEMU CVE-2018-20815 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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)

Affected Applications

QEMU

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