Security Vulnerabilities fixed in QEMU RHSA-2019:2166

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: net: ignore packets with large size (CVE-2018-17963) * QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request (CVE-2019-6501) 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. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Affected Applications

QEMU

CVE References

CVE-2018-17963 CVE-2019-6501

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2166