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Medium ALAS2-2020-1557 2 CVEs

Moderate: libvirt security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 9, 2020 · Updated Nov 11, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-10703: A NULL pointer dereference was found in the libvirt API responsible for fetching a storage pool based on its target path. In more detail, this flaw affects storage pools created without a target path such as network-based pools like gluster and RBD. Unprivileged users with a read-only connection could abuse this flaw to crash the libvirt daemon, resulting in a potential denial of service. 1816650: CVE-2020-10703 libvirt: Potential denial of service via active pool without target path 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. 1809740: CVE-2019-20485 libvirt: Potential DoS by holding a monitor job while querying QEMU guest-agent

Fixed packages 32

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-admin 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-bash-completion 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-client 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-config-network 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-network 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-kvm 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-daemon-lxc 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-debuginfo 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-devel 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-docs 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-libs 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-lock-sanlock 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-login-shell 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 libvirt-nss 0:4.5.0-36.amzn2.2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-20485.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-10703.html