RHSA-2019:1881 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-ma security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · July 30, 2019
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available 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
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures.
Security Fix(es):
- QEMU: device_tree: heap buffer overflow while loading device tree blob (CVE-2018-20815)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
- As newer machine remove csske feature, detection of the processor fail and machine used old version as fallback. This update make feature conditional so detection of newer cpu works properly. (BZ#1720262)