Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in KVM qemu-kvm, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially gain escalated privileges.
fad90f6c41a3979a140831aeb137f8f59f6f81d55a6ec286521cf1473ec84984
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM) enables you to handle vulnerability threats in a simple, cost effective way.
Read more and request a free trial:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/vim/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE:
KVM qemu-kvm VirtIO virtqueue Request Handling Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45188
VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/45188/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45188
RELEASE DATE:
2011-07-06
DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/45188/#comments
AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
* Last Update
* Popularity
* Comments
* Criticality Level
* Impact
* Where
* Solution Status
* Operating System / Software
* CVE Reference(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/45188/
ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA:
* Authentication Level
* Report Reliability
* Secunia PoC
* Secunia Analysis
* Systems Affected
* Approve Distribution
* Remediation Status
* Secunia CVSS Score
* CVSS
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45188
ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
* AUTOMATED SCANNING
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KVM qemu-kvm, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially gain escalated
privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the VirtIO
implementation.
For more information:
SA45187
SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted users only.
OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.
Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/
Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/
Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.
----------------------------------------------------------------------