RHSA-2019:2166 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-ma security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 6, 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 Moderate. 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):
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QEMU: net: ignore packets with large size (CVE-2018-17963)
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QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request (CVE-2019-6501)
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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.