-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1740-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1740.html Issue date: 2015-09-07 CVE Names: CVE-2015-5165 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate 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: RHEV Agents (vdsm) - x86_64 3. Description: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm-rhev package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM in environments managed by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. An information leak flaw was found in the way QEMU's RTL8139 emulation implementation processed network packets under RTL8139 controller's C+ mode of operation. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to read up to 65 KB of uninitialized QEMU heap memory. (CVE-2015-5165) Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Donghai Zhu of Alibaba as the original reporter. All users of qemu-kvm-rhev are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, shut down all running virtual machines. Once all virtual machines have shut down, start them again for this update to 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 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1248760 - CVE-2015-5165 Qemu: rtl8139 uninitialized heap memory information leakage to guest (XSA-140) 6. Package List: RHEV Agents (vdsm): Source: qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.src.rpm x86_64: qemu-img-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-rhev-tools-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.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-2015-5165 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFV7bKEXlSAg2UNWIIRAjhbAKC94SE9Y3UYdwYM6vpzCx2ckIsx3wCgnk2M +Q0QKVhg+SZkXtId9Ycek6Y= =o3uf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list RHSA-announce@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce