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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2019:1234-1 High: QEMU Security Updates

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Calendar Grey August 17, 2018
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To enhance the security of openSUSE's qemu package, we will tackle three vulnerabilities and implement four key improvements to protect users.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

Description

This update for qemu to version 2.11.2 fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-11806: Fix heap buffer overflow issue that can happen while

reassembling fragmented datagrams (bsc#1096223).

- CVE-2018-3639: Mitigation functionality for Speculative Store Bypass

issue in x86 (bsc#1087082).

- CVE-2018-7550: Fix out of bounds read and write memory access,

potentially leading to code execution (bsc#1083291)

Bug fixes:

- bsc#1091695: SEV guest will not lauchh with qemu-system-x86_64 version

2.11.1.

- bsc#1094898: qemu-guest-agent service doesn't work in version Leap 15.0.

- bsc#1094725: `virsh blockresize` does not work with Xen qdisks.

- bsc#1094913: QEMU crashes when starting a guest with more than 7.999TB.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate threat mitigation memory access openSUSE qemu

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-894=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

qemu-ipxe-1.0.0-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-seabios-1.11.0-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-sgabios-8-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-vgabios-1.11.0-lp150.7.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

qemu-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-arm-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-arm-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-curl-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-dmg-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-dmg-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-gluster-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-gluster-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-iscsi-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-iscsi-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-rbd-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-rbd-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-ssh-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-block-ssh-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-debugsource-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-extra-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-extra-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-guest-agent-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-ksm-2.11.2-lp150.7.6.1

qemu-kvm-2.11.2-lp150.7.6...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11806.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7550.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083291

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1091695

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094725

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094898

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094913

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1096223

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2402-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate threat mitigation memory access openSUSE qemu

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