Synopsis: Important: qemu-kvm security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:1087-1
Issue Date: 2015-06-10
CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-3209
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A flaw was found in the way QEMU’s AMD PCnet Ethernet emulation handled
multi-TMD packets with a length above 4096 bytes. A privileged guest user
in a guest with an AMD PCNet ethernet card enabled could potentially use
this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the
hosting QEMU process. (CVE-2015-3209)
After installing this update, shut down all running virtual machines. Once
all virtual machines have shut down, start them again for this update to
take effect.
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SL6
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.4.x86_64.rpm
qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.4.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.4.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.4.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.4.x86_64.rpm
i386
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.4.i686.rpm
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.4.i686.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
