QID 174920

QID 174920: SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1243-1)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-12829: Fix OOB access in sm501 device emulation (bsc#1172385)
- CVE-2020-25723: Fix use-after-free in usb xhci packet handling
(bsc#1178934)
- CVE-2020-25084: Fix use-after-free in usb ehci packet handling
(bsc#1176673)
- CVE-2020-25625: Fix infinite loop (DoS) in usb hcd-ohci emulation
(bsc#1176684)
- CVE-2020-25624: Fix OOB access in usb hcd-ohci emulation (bsc#1176682)
- CVE-2020-27617: Fix guest triggerable assert in shared network handling
code (bsc#1178174)
- CVE-2020-28916: Fix infinite loop (DoS) in e1000e device emulation
(bsc#1179468)
- CVE-2020-29443: Fix OOB access in atapi emulation (bsc#1181108)
- CVE-2020-27821: Fix heap overflow in MSIx emulation (bsc#1179686)
- CVE-2020-15469: Fix null pointer deref. (DoS) in mmio ops (bsc#1173612)
- CVE-2021-20257: Fix infinite loop (DoS) in e1000 device emulation
(bsc#1182577)
- CVE-2021-3416: Fix OOB access (stack overflow) in rtl8139 NIC emulation
(bsc#1182968)
- CVE-2021-3416: Fix OOB access (stack overflow) in other NIC emulations
(bsc#1182968)
- CVE-2020-27616: Fix OOB access in ati-vga emulation (bsc#1178400)
- CVE-2020-29129: Fix OOB access in SLIRP ARP/NCSI packet processing
(bsc#1179466, CVE-2020-29130, bsc#1179467)
- Fix package scripts to not use hard coded paths for temporary working
directories and log files (bsc#1182425)
- Add split-provides through forsplits/13 to cover updates of SLE15-SP2 to
SLE15-SP3, and openSUSE equivalents (bsc#1184064)
- Added a few more usability improvements for our git packaging workflow

Successful exploitation allows attacker to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.4 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest package which contains the patch. To install this SUSE Security, Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product. To install packages using the command line interface, use command "yum update". Refer to Suse security advisory: SUSE-SU-2021:1243-1 to address this issue and obtain further details.
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    SUSE-SU-2021:1243-1 SUSE Enterprise Linux URL Logo lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-April/008646.html
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