Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Informations
Name RHSA-2020:0730 First vendor Publication 2020-03-05
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2020-03-05
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 9.9
Base Score 9.9 Environmental Score 9.9
impact SubScore 6 Temporal Score 9.9
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.1
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Changed Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

Problem Description:

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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:

RHV-M 4.2 - x86_64

3. Description:

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.

Security Fix(es):

* hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)

* QEMU: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server (CVE-2020-1711)

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):

* [Intel 7.6.z Bug] [KVM][CLX] CPUID_7_0_EDX_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is not enabled in VM qemu-kvm-rhev (BZ#1730601)

* qemu-kvm-rhev: backport cpuidle-haltpoll support (BZ#1746281)

Enhancement(s):

* [Intel 7.7 FEAT] MDS_NO exposure to guest - qemu-kvm-rhev (BZ#1743632)

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/2974891

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.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1746281 - qemu-kvm-rhev: backport cpuidle-haltpoll support [rhel-7.6.z] 1753062 - CVE-2019-11135 hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) 1794290 - CVE-2020-1711 QEMU: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020-0730.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 188
Application 1
Application 4
Application 2
Application 1
Application 1
Os 1
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1
Os 6
Os 1
Os 5
Os 5
Os 1

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Date Informations
2020-05-23 13:03:45
  • Multiple Updates
2020-03-19 13:20:05
  • First insertion