Security update for qemu (important)

An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is
now available.

Description:

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow issue in the SLiRP
  networking implementation (bsc#1123156).
• CVE-2018-16872: Fixed a host security vulnerability related to handling
  symlinks in usb-mtp (bsc#1119493).
• CVE-2018-19489: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability in virtfs
  (bsc#1117275).
• CVE-2018-19364: Fixed a use-after-free if the virtfs interface resulting
  in a denial of service (bsc#1116717).
• CVE-2018-18954: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability related to
  PowerPC PowerNV memory operations (bsc#1114957).

Non-security issues fixed:

• Improved disk performance for qemu on xen (bsc#1100408).
• Fixed xen offline migration (bsc#1079730, bsc#1101982, bsc#1063993).
• Fixed pwrite64/pread64/write to return 0 over -1 for a zero length NULL
  buffer in qemu (bsc#1121600).
• Use /bin/bash to echo value into sys fs for ksm control (bsc#1112646).
• Return specification exception for unimplemented diag 308 subcodes
  rather than a hardware error (bsc#1123179).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

• openSUSE Leap 15.0:

  zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-254=1