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Fedora 22 QEMU Update 2015-15364 Critical: Memory Corruption Fix

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addressing heap memory issues in vnc_refresh_server_surface function within QEMU on Fedora 22. Immediate update recommended for improved system stability.
Fix typo causing qemu-img to link against entire world (bz #1260996) ---- * CVE-2015-5225: heap memory corruption in vnc_refresh_server_surface (bz #1255899)

Summary

QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good

emulation speed by using dynamic translation. QEMU has two operating modes:

* Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for

example a PC), including a processor and various peripherials. It can be

used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or

to debug system code.

* User mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled

for one CPU on another CPU.

As QEMU requires no host kernel patches to run, it is safe and easy to use.

Update Information:

Fix typo causing qemu-img to link against entire world (bz #1260996) ---- * CVE-2015-5225: heap memory corruption in vnc_refresh_server_surface (bz #1255899)

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1255896 - CVE-2015-5225 Qemu: ui: vnc: heap memory corruption in vnc_refresh_server_surface https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255896

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update qemu' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: qemu
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.3.1
Release: 3.fc22
Summary: QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator

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