openSUSE Security Update: Security update for qemu
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0536-1
Rating: important
References: #954864 #956829 #957162
Cross-References: CVE-2015-7512 CVE-2015-8345
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.1
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An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one
errata is now available.

Description:

This update fixes the following security issues:

– Enforce receive packet size, thus eliminating buffer overflow and
potential security issue. (bsc#957162 CVE-2015-7512)
– Infinite loop in processing command block list. CVE-2015-8345
(bsc#956829):

This update also fixes a non-security bug:
– Due to space restrictions in limited bios data areas, don’t create
mptable if vcpu count is “high” (ie more than ~19). (bsc#954864) (No
supported guests are negatively impacted by this change, which is taken
from upstream seabios)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-252=1

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

Package List:

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-arm-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-arm-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-block-curl-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-debugsource-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-extra-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-extra-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-guest-agent-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-kvm-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-lang-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-linux-user-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-linux-user-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-linux-user-debugsource-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-ppc-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-ppc-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-s390-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-s390-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-tools-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-tools-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-x86-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-x86-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

qemu-block-rbd-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-block-rbd-debuginfo-2.3.1-12.1
qemu-testsuite-2.3.1-12.2

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

qemu-ipxe-1.0.0-12.1
qemu-seabios-1.8.1-12.1
qemu-sgabios-8-12.1
qemu-vgabios-1.8.1-12.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7512.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8345.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/954864
https://bugzilla.suse.com/956829
https://bugzilla.suse.com/957162

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