Synopsis: Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement
Advisory ID: SLSA-2017:1856-1
Issue Date: 2017-08-01
CVE Numbers: CVE-2017-2633
CVE-2016-4020
CVE-2017-5898
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Security Fix(es):
* An out-of-bounds memory access issue was found in Quick Emulator (QEMU)
in the VNC display driver. This flaw could occur while refreshing the VNC
display surface area in the ‘vnc_refresh_server_surface’. A user inside a
guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process. (CVE-2017-2633)
* An integer overflow flaw was found in Quick Emulator (QEMU) in the CCID
Card device support. The flaw could occur while passing messages via
command/response packets to and from the host. A privileged user inside a
guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process. (CVE-2017-5898)
* An information exposure flaw was found in Quick Emulator (QEMU) in Task
Priority Register (TPR) optimizations for 32-bit Windows guests. The flaw
could occur while accessing TPR. A privileged user inside a guest could
use this issue to read portions of the host memory. (CVE-2016-4020)
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SL7
x86_64
qemu-img-1.5.3-141.el7.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-141.el7.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-141.el7.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-1.5.3-141.el7.x86_64.rpm
qemu-kvm-tools-1.5.3-141.el7.x86_64.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
