Synopsis: Important: kvm security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:1943-1
Issue Date: 2016-09-27
CVE Numbers: CVE-2016-3710
CVE-2016-5403
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Security Fix(es):
* An out-of-bounds read/write access flaw was found in the way QEMU’s VGA
emulation with VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) support performed read/write
operations using I/O port methods. A privileged guest user could use this
flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the
host’s QEMU process. (CVE-2016-3710)
* Quick Emulator(QEMU) built with the virtio framework is vulnerable to an
unbounded memory allocation issue. It was found that a malicious guest
user could submit more requests than the virtqueue size permits.
Processing a request allocates a VirtQueueElement results in unbounded
memory allocation on the host controlled by the guest. (CVE-2016-5403)
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SL5
x86_64
kmod-kvm-83-276.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kmod-kvm-debug-83-276.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-276.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-debuginfo-83-276.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-276.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-276.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
