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HistoryJul 29, 2019 - 12:48 p.m.

(RHSA-2019:1881) Important: qemu-kvm-ma security and bug fix update

2019-07-2912:48:27
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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures.

Security Fix(es):

  • QEMU: device_tree: heap buffer overflow while loading device tree blob (CVE-2018-20815)

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):

  • As newer machine remove csske feature, detection of the processor fail and machine used old version as fallback. This update make feature conditional so detection of newer cpu works properly. (BZ#1720262)