Scientific Linux: SLSA-2015:1924-1 Important QEMU-KVM Denial of Service

Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:58:28 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: qemu-kvm on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Message-ID: <20151022195828.23305.49966@slpackages.fnal.gov>

Synopsis: Important: qemu-kvm security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:1924-1
Issue Date: 2015-10-22
CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-5279
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A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's NE2000 NIC
emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the
network. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the
QEMU instance (denial of service) or potentially execute arbitrary code on
the host. (CVE-2015-5279)

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_7.2.x86_64.rpm
 qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm
 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm
 qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm
 qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.i686.rpm
 qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team