| Revision Date: | 2016-01-04 | Version: | 1 |
| Title: | Security update for kvm (Important) |
| Description: |
This update for kvm fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-7512: The receive packet size is now checked in the emulated pcnet driver, eliminating buffer overflow and potential security issue by malicious guest systems. (bsc#957162) - CVE-2015-8345: A infinite loop in processing command block list was fixed that could be exploit by malicious guest systems (bsc#956829).
Other bugs fixed: - To assist users past the migration incompatibility discussed in bsc#950590 (restore migration compatibility with SLE11 SP3 and SLE12, at the unfortunate expense to prior SLE11 SP4 kvm release compatability when a virtio-net device is used), print a message which references the support document TID 7017048. See https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017048 - Fix cases of wrong clock values in kvmclock timekeeping (bsc#947164 and bsc#953187) - Enforce pxe rom sizes to ensure migration compatibility. (bsc#950590) - Fix kvm live migration fails between sles11 sp3 and sp4 (bsc#950590)
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | 947164
950590
953187
956829
957162
CVE-2015-7512
CVE-2015-8345
SUSE-SU-2016:0010-1
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| Platform(s): | SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 is installed AND kvm-1.4.2-35.1 is installed
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