qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:2462

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams (CVE-2018-11806)

• QEMU: i386: multiboot OOB access while loading kernel image (CVE-2018-7550)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Jskz - Zero Day Initiative (trendmicro.com) for reporting CVE-2018-11806 and Cyrille Chatras (Orange.com) and CERT-CC (Orange.com) for reporting CVE-2018-7550.

Bug Fix(es):

• Previously, live migrating a Windows guest in some cases caused the guest to become unresponsive. This update ensures that Real-time Clock (RTC) interrupts are not missed, which prevents the problem from occurring. (BZ#1596302)

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2018-August/085161.html

Affected packages:
qemu-img
qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm-common
qemu-kvm-tools

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2462