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SUSE: 2016:0010-1 Important: kvm DoS And Buffer Overflow Fixes

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Calendar Grey January 4, 2016
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SUSE Security Notice: kvm advisory ID SUSE-SU-2016:0010-2 tackles critical vulnerabilities and issues.
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Summary

This update for kvm fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-7512: The receive packet size is now checked in the emulated pcnet driver, eliminating buffer overflow and potential security issue by malicious guest systems. (bsc#957162) - CVE-2015-8345: A infinite loop in processing command block list was fixed that could be exploit by malicious guest systems (bsc#956829). Other bugs fixed: - To assist users past the migration incompatibility discussed in bsc#950590 (restore migration compatibility with SLE11 SP3 and SLE12, at the unfortunate expense to prior SLE11 SP4 kvm release compatability when a virtio-net device is used), print a message which references the support document TID 7017048. See https://www.suse.com/support/kb/

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical threat SUSE important update kvm malicious guest

References

#947164 #950590 #953187 #956829 #957162

Cross- CVE-2015-7512 CVE-2015-8345

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7512.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8345.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947164

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950590

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953187

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956829

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957162

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0010-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical threat SUSE important update kvm malicious guest

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