CVE-2019-20485

A flaw was found in the way the libvirtd daemon issued the 'suspend' command to a QEMU guest-agent running inside a guest, where it holds a monitor job while issuing the 'suspend' command to a guest-agent. A malicious guest-agent may use this flaw to block the libvirt daemon indefinitely, resulting in a denial of service.

This issue affects the version of the libvirt package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization 8. Future libvirt updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization 8 may address this issue.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 and 6 are in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the life cycle. This issue has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 and 6. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.