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SUSE: 2019:2589-1 Critical: QEMU Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2015
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Important notice regarding SUSE addressing the kvm security flaw CVE-2015-5154. Implement without delay to safeguard your systems.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

kvm was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2015-5154: Host code execution via IDE subsystem CD-ROM (bsc#938344). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch slessp3-kvm-12062=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch sledsp3-kvm-12062=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 (i586 s390x x86_64): kvm-1.4.2-0.22.34.3 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 (i586 x86_64): kvm-1.4.2-0.22.34.3

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References

#938344

Cross- CVE-2015-5154

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5154.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/938344

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1472-1
Rating: important

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