RHSA-2020:4048 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 29, 2020

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support.

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 packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es):

  • QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:4048 — Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update | PulseLinux