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Fedora 25: 2017-cdb53b04e0 Critical: QEMU Memory Bugs and Issues

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2017
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Comprehensive notice for Fedora 25 targeting numerous Qemu vulnerabilities and user-reported bugs. Urgent measures advised.
Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive [CVE-2016-9776] Qemu: audio: memory leakage in ac97 [CVE-2017-5525] Qemu: audio: memory leakage in es1370 ...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive [CVE-2016-9776] Qemu: audio: memory leakage in ac97 [CVE-2017-5525] Qemu: audio: memory leakage in es1370 device [CVE-2017-5526] oob access in cirrus bitblt copy [XSA-208, CVE-2017-2615]

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora memory leak virtualization QEMU bug issue

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1414108 - CVE-2017-5525 Qemu: audio: memory leakage in ac97 device https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414108 [ 2 ] Bug #1414209 - CVE-2017-5526 Qemu: audio: memory leakage in es1370 device https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414209 [ 3 ] Bug #1418200 - CVE-2017-2615 Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt copy backward mode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418200

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade xen' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: xen
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.7.1
Release: 7.fc25
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora memory leak virtualization QEMU bug issue

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