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Fedora 22: 2016-890e612f52 Critical DoS And Buffer Overrun Fix

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential Fedora QEMU security patch tackles various concerns like memory overflow vulnerabilities and denial of service risks. Promptly upgrade.
* CVE-2015-7549: pci: null pointer dereference issue (bz #1291138) * CVE-2015-8558: DoS by infinite loop in ehci_advance_state (bz #1291309) * CVE-2015-8666: Heap-based buffer over...

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:

* CVE-2015-7549: pci: null pointer dereference issue (bz #1291138) * CVE-2015-8558: DoS by infinite loop in ehci_advance_state (bz #1291309) * CVE-2015-8666: Heap-based buffer overrun during VM migration (bz #1294027) * CVE-2015-8744: vmxnet3: fix crash with short packets (bz #1295440) * CVE-2015-8745: vmxnet3: don't assert reading registers in bar0 (bz #1295442)

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1291137 - CVE-2015-7549 Qemu: pci: null pointer dereference issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137 [ 2 ] Bug #1277983 - CVE-2015-8558 Qemu: usb: infinite loop in ehci_advance_state results in DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277983 [ 3 ] Bug #1283722 - CVE-2015-8666 Qemu: acpi: heap based buffer overrun during VM migration https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283722 [ 4 ] Bug #1270871 - CVE-2015-8744 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash via assert(2) call https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871 [ 5 ] Bug #1270876 - CVE-2015-8745 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: reading IMR registers leads to a crash via assert(2) call https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876

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: 10.fc22
URL: https://www.qemu.org/
Summary: QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator

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