Secunia Security Advisory - SUSE has issued an update for kvm. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest system to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
SUSE update for kvm
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44660
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-05-20
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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for kvm. This fixes some vulnerabilities,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest system to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and gain escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA44132
SA44648
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
openSUSE-SU-2011:0510-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8511476
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