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[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:0929-1: important: Security update for KVM

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for KVM

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0929-1

Rating: important

References: #877642 #877645 #929339

Cross-References: CVE-2014-0222 CVE-2014-0223 CVE-2015-3456

 

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS

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An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now

available. It includes one version update.

 

Description:

 

 

KVM was updated to fix the following security issues:

 

* CVE-2015-3456: Buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which

could be used to carry out denial of service attacks or potential

code execution against the host. This vulnerability is also known as

VENOM.

* CVE-2014-0222: Integer overflow in the qcow_open function in

block/qcow.c in QEMU allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of

service (crash) via a large L2 table in a QCOW version 1 image.

* CVE-2014-0223: Integer overflow in the qcow_open function in

block/qcow.c in QEMU allowed local users to cause a denial of

service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large

image size, which triggers a buffer overflow or out-of-bounds read.

 

Security Issues:

 

* CVE-2015-3456

 

* CVE-2014-0222

 

* CVE-2014-0223

 

 

 

Special Instructions and Notes:

 

Please reboot the system after installing this update.

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp1-kvm=10683

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 0.12.5]:

 

kvm-0.12.5-1.26.1

 

 

References:

 

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0222.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0223.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3456.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/877642

https://bugzilla.suse.com/877645

https://bugzilla.suse.com/929339

https://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=a793805e5c8b31d54aefde03808c673c

 

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