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openSUSE: 2022:2345-1 Critical: Security Update for qemu Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Vital Fedora security patch tackles a memory leak in qemu's ASCII terminal emulation feature.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

qemu was fixed to add bounds checking for VT100 escape code

parsing and cursor placement.

Also qemu was updated on 12.2 and 11.4 to the latest stable

release (v1.1.1 and v0.14.1 respectively).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 12.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-599

- openSUSE 12.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-599

- openSUSE 11.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-599

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 12.2 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-1.1.1-3.9.1

qemu-debuginfo-1.1.1-3.9.1

qemu-debugsource-1.1.1-3.9.1

qemu-guest-agent-1.1.1-3.9.1

qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-1.1.1-3.9.1

qemu-linux-user-1.1.1-3.9.1

qemu-tools-1.1.1-3.9.1

qemu-tools-debuginfo-1.1.1-3.9.1

- openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-0.14.1-7.6.1

qemu-debuginfo-0.14.1-7.6.1

qemu-debugsource-0.14.1-7.6.1

- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-0.14.1-1.10.1

qemu-debuginfo-0.14.1-1.10.1

qemu-debugsource-0.14.1-1.10.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3515.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:1170-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.2 openSUSE 12.1 openSUSE 11.4

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