SciLinux: SLSA-2016:0997-1 Important: qemu-kvm Remote Code Execution

Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:17:28 -0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Kevin Hill 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: qemu-kvm on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Message-ID: <20160608211728.19339.73367@slpackages.fnal.gov>

Synopsis: Important: qemu-kvm security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:0997-1
Issue Date: 2016-05-10
CVE Numbers: CVE-2016-3710
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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)
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SL6
 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
 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

- Scientific Linux Development Team