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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2015.2614 Important: qemu-kvm-rhev security update 16 October 2015 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: qemu-kvm-rhev Publisher: Red Hat Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Existing Account Denial of Service -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2015-5279 Reference: ESB-2015.2455 ESB-2015.2454 Original Bulletin: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1896.html - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: qemu-kvm-rhev security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1896-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1896.html Issue date: 2015-10-15 CVE Names: CVE-2015-5279 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for RHEL 6 - x86_64 3. Description: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm-rhev package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM. A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's NE2000 NIC emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the network. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance (denial of service) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. (CVE-2015-5279) Red Hat would like to thank Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. for reporting this issue. All users of qemu-kvm-rhev are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, shut down and restart all running virtual machines for this update to take effect. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1256672 - CVE-2015-5279 qemu: Heap overflow vulnerability in ne2000_receive() function 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for RHEL 6: Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.src.rpm x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-tools-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5279 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. 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