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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kvm security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1925-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1925.html
Issue date: 2015-10-22
CVE Names: CVE-2015-5279
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1. Summary:
Updated kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) – x86_64
RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server) – x86_64
3. Description:
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for
Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems.
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU’s NE2000 NIC
emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the network.
A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU
instance (denial of service) or potentially execute arbitrary code on
the host. (CVE-2015-5279)
Red Hat would like to thank Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. for reporting
this issue.
All kvm users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Note: The procedure in
the Solution section must be performed before this update will take effect.
4. Solution:
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
The following procedure must be performed before this update will take
effect:
1) Stop all KVM guest virtual machines.
2) Either reboot the hypervisor machine or, as the root user, remove (using
“modprobe -r [module]”) and reload (using “modprobe [module]”) all of the
following modules which are currently running (determined using “lsmod”):
kvm, ksm, kvm-intel or kvm-amd.
3) Restart the KVM guest virtual machines.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1256672 – CVE-2015-5279 qemu: Heap overflow vulnerability in ne2000_receive() function
6. Package List:
RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client):
Source:
kvm-83-274.el5_11.src.rpm
x86_64:
kmod-kvm-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kmod-kvm-debug-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-debuginfo-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server):
Source:
kvm-83-274.el5_11.src.rpm
x86_64:
kmod-kvm-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kmod-kvm-debug-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-debuginfo-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-274.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5279
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
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