RHSA-2020:1292: Important: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

First published: Thu Apr 02 2020(Updated: )

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.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> CVE-2020-8608 QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages</li> Users of qemu-kvm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. 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.

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
redhat/qemu-kvm-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-img-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-kvm-common-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-kvm-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-kvm-tools-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-img-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-kvm-common-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-kvm-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1
redhat/qemu-kvm-tools-rhev	<2.12.0-44.el7_8.1	2.12.0-44.el7_8.1

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