rhsa-2015_1896
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2015-10-15 12:17
Modified
2024-11-05 19:02
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

Notes

Topic
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.
Details
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.
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