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Red Hat: RHSA-2016:0997-01 Critical: qemu-kvm Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2016
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Essential patch for qemu-kvm on Red Hat Linux resolves significant vulnerabilities. Prompt measures needed for protection.
An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, shut down all running virtual machines. Once all virtual machines have shut down, start them again for this update to take effect.

Summary

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM.
Security Fix(es):
* An out-of-bounds read/write access flaw was found in the way QEMU's VGA emulation with VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) support performed read/write operations via I/O port methods. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the host's QEMU process. (CVE-2016-3710)
Red Hat would like to thank Wei Xiao (360 Marvel Team) and Qinghao Tang (360 Marvel Team) for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat privilege escalation critical update qemu-kvm

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3710 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.src.rpm
i386: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.i686.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.src.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.src.rpm
i386: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.i686.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
ppc64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.ppc64.rpm
x86_64: qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0997-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0997.html
Issue date: 2016-05-10

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat privilege escalation critical update qemu-kvm

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1331401 - CVE-2016-3710 qemu: incorrect banked access bounds checking in vga module

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