RHSA-2018:2887 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · October 9, 2018
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.
Security Fix(es):
- QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams (CVE-2018-11806)
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 this issue.