Medium: qemu-kvm

Issue Overview:

An out-of-bound write access flaw was found in the way QEMU loads ROM contents at boot time. This flaw occurs in the rom_copy() routine while loading the contents of a 32-bit -kernel image into memory. Running an untrusted -kernel image may load contents at arbitrary memory locations, potentially leading to code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process. (CVE-2020-13765)

An assertion failure flaw was found in QEMU in the network packet processing component. This issue affects the “e1000e” and “vmxnet3” network devices. This flaw allows a malicious guest user or process to abort the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-16092)

Affected Packages:

qemu-kvm

Issue Correction:
Run yum update qemu-kvm to update your system.

New Packages:

src:  
    qemu-kvm-1.5.3-156.26.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    qemu-kvm-tools-1.5.3-156.26.amzn1.x86_64  
    qemu-kvm-1.5.3-156.26.amzn1.x86_64  
    qemu-kvm-debuginfo-1.5.3-156.26.amzn1.x86_64  
    qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-156.26.amzn1.x86_64  
    qemu-img-1.5.3-156.26.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-13765, CVE-2020-16092

Mitre: CVE-2020-13765, CVE-2020-16092