Synopsis: Important: kvm security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2017:0454-1
Issue Date: 2017-03-07
CVE Numbers: CVE-2017-2615
CVE-2017-2620
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Security Fix(es):
* Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator
support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur
while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user
inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in
DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of
QEMU process on the host. (CVE-2017-2615)
* Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator
support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could
occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged
user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR
potentially execute arbitrary code on host with privileges of the QEMU
process. (CVE-2017-2620)
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SL5
x86_64
kmod-kvm-83-277.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kmod-kvm-debug-83-277.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-277.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-debuginfo-83-277.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-277.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-277.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
