Synopsis:          Important: qemu-kvm security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2020:1208-1
Issue Date:        2020-04-07
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2020-8608
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* QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages
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SL7
  x86_64
    qemu-img-1.5.3-173.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm
    qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-173.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm
    qemu-kvm-tools-1.5.3-173.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm
    qemu-kvm-1.5.3-173.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm
    qemu-kvm-debuginfo-1.5.3-173.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team

SciLinux: SLSA-2020-1208-1 Important: qemu-kvm on SL7.x x86_64

QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages SL7 x86_64 qemu-img-1.5.3-173.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-173.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-1.5.3...

Summary

Important: qemu-kvm security update



Security Fixes

Severity
Advisory ID: SLSA-2020:1208-1
Issued Date: : 2020-04-07
CVE Numbers: CVE-2020-8608
* QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages

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