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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2017:2938-1 Important: DoS and Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch for Fedora resolves various vulnerabilities in libvirt, targeting significant security flaws and improving overall performance.
An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now...

Description

This update for qemu to version 2.9.1 fixes several issues.

It also announces that the qed storage format will be no longer supported

in Leap 15.0.

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2017-15268: Qemu allowed remote attackers to cause a memory leak by

triggering slow data-channel read operations, related to

io/channel-websock.c (bsc#1062942)

- CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed local OS guest

privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write

access and Qemu process crash) via vectors related to dst calculation

(bsc#1063122)

- CVE-2017-15038: Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function local

guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via

vectors related to reading extended attributes (bsc#1062069)

- CVE-2017-10911: The make_response function in the Linux kernel allowed

guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS (or other

guest OS)...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update important memory leak openSUSE qemu

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1248=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-linux-user-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-linux-user-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-linux-user-debugsource-2.9.1-35.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

qemu-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-arm-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-arm-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-curl-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-dmg-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-dmg-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-iscsi-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-iscsi-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-rbd-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-rbd-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-ssh-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-block-ssh-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-debugsource-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-extra-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-extra-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-guest-agent-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-ksm-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-kvm-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-lang-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-ppc-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-ppc-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-s390-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-s390-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-testsuite-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-tools-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-tools-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-x86-2.9.1-35.1

qemu-x86-debuginfo-2.9.1-35.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

qemu-ipxe-1....

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10911.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12809.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13672.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13711.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14167.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15038.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15268.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15289.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1054724

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1055587

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1056291

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1056334

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1057378

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1057585

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1057966

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062069

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062942

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1063122

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2938-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update important memory leak openSUSE qemu

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