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openSUSE Leap 42.2 Security Update: important: QEMU Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey January 18, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important patch for openSUSE addresses 13 vulnerabilities in qemu, significantly improving safeguards against system failures and information exposure.
An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is ...

Description

qemu was updated to fix several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2016-9102: Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in

hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS administrators to cause a denial

of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large

number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number (bsc#1014256).

- CVE-2016-9103: The v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed

local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host heap memory

information by reading xattribute values writing to them (bsc#1007454).

- CVE-2016-9381: Improper processing of shared rings allowing guest

administrators take over the qemu process, elevating their privilege to

that of the qemu process (bsc#1009109)

- CVE-2016-9776: The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support

was vulnerable to an infinite loop issue while receiving packets in

'mcf_fec_receive'. A privileged user/process inside...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-116=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-arm-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-arm-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-block-curl-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-block-dmg-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-block-dmg-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-block-iscsi-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-block-iscsi-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-block-ssh-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-block-ssh-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-debugsource-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-extra-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-extra-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-guest-agent-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-kvm-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-lang-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-linux-user-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-linux-user-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-linux-user-debugsource-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-ppc-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-ppc-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-s390-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-s390-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-testsuite-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-tools-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-tools-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-x86-2.6.2-26.1

qemu-x86-debuginfo-2.6.2-26.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

qemu-ipxe-1.0.0-26.1

qemu-seabios-1.9.1-26.1

qemu-sgabios-8-26.1

qemu-vgabios-1.9.1-26.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

qemu-b...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9102.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9103.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9381.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9776.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9845.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9846.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9907.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9908.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9911.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9912.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9913.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9921.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9922.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007454

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1008519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009109

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1013285

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1013341

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1013764

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1013767

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1014109

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1014110

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0194-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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