Scientific Linux: SLSA-2015:1833-1 Moderate: qemu-kvm Information Leak

Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 22:56:40 +0000
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From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: qemu-kvm on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Message-ID: <20150922225640.30879.75515@slpackages.fnal.gov>

Synopsis: Moderate: qemu-kvm security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:1833-1
Issue Date: 2015-09-22
CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-5165
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An information leak flaw was found in the way QEMU's RTL8139 emulation
implementation processed network packets under RTL8139 controller's C+
mode of operation. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to read
up to 65 KB of uninitialized QEMU heap memory. (CVE-2015-5165)

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.
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SL6
 x86_64
 qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
 qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
 qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
 qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
 qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team