RHSA-2021:0346MediumCVSS 6.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-ma security update

Published
February 2, 2021
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2020-1983 →CVE-2020-16092 →

📋 Description

CVE-2020-1983 — QEMU: slirp: use-after-free in ip_reass() function in ip_input.c CVE-2020-16092 — QEMU: reachable assertion failure in net_tx_pkt_add_raw_fragment() in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c

🎯 Affected products19

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-tools-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-tools-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-tools-ma-10:2.12.0-48.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 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.

🔗 References (5)