Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: virtio-win security and bug fix update

An updated virtio-win package that fixes one security issue and two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

virtio-win: netkvm: malformed packet can cause BSOD

It was found that the Windows Virtio NIC driver did not sufficiently sanitize the length of the incoming IP packets, as demonstrated by a packet with IP options present but the overall packet length not being adjusted to reflect the length of those options. A remote attacker able to send a...