RHSA-2020:1351HighCVSS 5.6

Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

Published
April 7, 2020
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2020-7039 →CVE-2020-8608 →

📋 Description

CVE-2020-7039 — QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu() CVE-2020-8608 — QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-img-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-img-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-tools-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7)
  • qemu-kvm-tools-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 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. Workaround: This issue can only be resolved by applying updates. Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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