SUSE: 2017:0789-1 Critical: Qemu Security Flaw & Command Exploits
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February 15, 2016
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now avai...
Summary
This update fixes the following security issues: - Enforce receive packet size, thus eliminating buffer overflow and potential security issue. (bsc#957162 CVE-2015-7512) - Infinite loop in processing command block list. CVE-2015-8345 (bsc#956829): This update also fixes a non-security bug: - Due to space restrictions in limited bios data areas, don't create mptable if vcpu count is "high" (ie more than ~19). (bsc#954864) (No supported guests are negatively impacted by this change, which is taken from upstream seabios) 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 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-263=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:
References
#954864 #956829 #957162
Cross- CVE-2015-7512 CVE-2015-8345
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7512.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8345.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/954864
https://bugzilla.suse.com/956829
https://bugzilla.suse.com/957162
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0459-1
Rating: important
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