(RHSA-2019:3345) Low: virt:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.

Security Fix(es):

• ntfs-3g: heap-based buffer overflow leads to local root privilege escalation (CVE-2019-9755)

• QEMU: slirp: information leakage in tcp_emu() due to uninitialized stack variables (CVE-2019-9824)

• QEMU: qxl: null pointer dereference while releasing spice resources (CVE-2019-12155)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.