7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
39.5%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1924
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for
Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm package provides the
user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM.
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 qemu-kvm users 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.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-October/083605.html
Affected packages:
qemu-guest-agent
qemu-img
qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm-tools
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1924
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 6 | i686 | qemu-guest-agent | <Â 0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2 | qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | x86_64 | qemu-guest-agent | <Â 0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2 | qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | x86_64 | qemu-img | <Â 0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2 | qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | x86_64 | qemu-kvm | <Â 0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2 | qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 6 | x86_64 | qemu-kvm-tools | <Â 0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2 | qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm |