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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12: SUSE-SU-2015:1782-1 Important: QEMU Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2015
Dist Suse Esm H88
Uncover vital SUSE upgrade tackling 5 vulnerabilities in qemu, with solutions aimed at boosting system integrity and improving performance metrics.
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Summary

qemu was updated to fix several security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: - CVE-2015-5154: Heap-based buffer overflow in the IDE subsystem in QEMU, when the container has a CDROM drive enabled, allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code on the host via unspecified ATAPI commands. (bsc#938344). - CVE-2015-5278: QEMU was vulnerable to an infinite loop issue that could occur when receiving packets over the network. (bsc#945989) - CVE-2015-5279: QEMU was vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow issue that could occur when receiving packets over the network. (bsc#945987) - CVE-2015-6855: QEMU was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue that could occur while executing an IDE command WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX to determine the maximum size of a drive. (bsc#945404)

References

#902737 #928308 #934506 #934517 #936537 #937125

#937572 #938344 #939216 #943446 #944017 #945404

#945778 #945987 #945989

Cross- CVE-2014-7815 CVE-2015-5154 CVE-2015-5278

CVE-2015-5279 CVE-2015-6855

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7815.html

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5278.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5279.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6855.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902737

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928308

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934506

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934517

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1782-1
Rating: important

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