| Revision Date: | 2016-08-09 | Version: | 635 |
| Title: | RHSA-2016:1585: qemu-kvm security update (Moderate) |
| Description: | KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM.
Security Fix(es):
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 and therefore causes unbounded memory allocation on the host controlled by the guest. (CVE-2016-5403)
Red Hat would like to thank hongzhenhao (Marvel Team) for reporting this issue.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2016-5403
RHSA-2016:1585
RHSA-2016:1585-00
RHSA-2016:1585-01
RHSA-2016:1585-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed OR Package Information
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is installed
AND
qemu-guest-agent is earlier than 2:0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.3
AND qemu-guest-agent is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
qemu-img is earlier than 2:0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.3
AND qemu-img is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
qemu-kvm is earlier than 2:0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.3
AND qemu-kvm is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
qemu-kvm-tools is earlier than 2:0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.3
AND qemu-kvm-tools is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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