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Red Hat: CVE-2018-10839: Important: qemu-kvm security update (RHSA-2019:2892)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-10839: Important: qemu-kvm security update (RHSA-2019:2892)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/16/2018
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

Qemu emulator <= 3.0.0 built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-img
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

References

  • DSA-4338
  • CVE-2018-10839
  • RHSA-2019:2892

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