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Red Hat: CVE-2018-17962: Important: qemu-kvm security update (RHSA-2019:2892)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-17962: Important: qemu-kvm security update (RHSA-2019:2892)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/09/2018
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.

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-2018-17962
  • RHSA-2019:2892

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