SUSE-SU-2016:2628-1 Security update for kvm

kvm was updated to fix 16 security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2015-6815: e1000 NIC emulation support was vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. A privileged user inside guest could have used this flaw to crash the Qemu instance resulting in DoS. bsc944697. - CVE-2016-2391: The...

CVE-2016-8669

The serialupdateparameters function in hw/char/serial.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash via vectors involving a value of divider greater than baud base...

CVE-2016-8578

The v9fsiovvunmarshal function in fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash by sending an empty string parameter to a 9P operation...

CVE-2016-7909

The pcnetrdraaddr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by setting the 1 receive or 2 transmit descriptor ring length to 0...

CVE-2016-7909

The pcnetrdraaddr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by setting the 1 receive or 2 transmit descriptor ring length to 0...

Design/Logic Flaw

The pcnetrdraaddr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by setting the 1 receive or 2 transmit descriptor ring length to 0...

Design/Logic Flaw

The imxfecdotx function in hw/net/imxfec.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator does not properly limit the buffer descriptor count when transmitting packets, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash via vectors involving a buffer descript...

CVE-2016-7909

CVE-2016-7909 affects QEMU pcnet.c (pcnet_rdra_addr): local admin can trigger an infinite loop and crash QEMU by setting the receive or transmit descriptor ring length to 0. Public advisories (e.g., Fedora FEDORA-2017-12394e2cc7 and Debian DLA-1599-1) include fixes/updates; apply vendor patches o...

CVE-2016-7908

The mcffecdotx function in hw/net/mcffec.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator does not properly limit the buffer descriptor count when transmitting packets, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash via vectors involving a buffer descript...

CVE-2016-7909

The pcnetrdraaddr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by setting the 1 receive or 2 transmit descriptor ring length to 0...

CVE-2016-7422

The virtqueuemapdesc function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash via a large I/O descriptor buffer length value...

CVE-2016-7421

The pvscsiringpopreqdescr function in hw/scsi/vmwpvscsi.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by leveraging failure to limit process IO loop to the ring size...

CVE-2016-7170

The vmsvgafiforun function in hw/display/vmwarevga.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash via vectors related to cursor.mask and cursor.image array sizes when processing a DEFINECURSOR svga command...

CVE-2016-7156

The pvscsiconvertsglist function in hw/scsi/vmwpvscsi.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by leveraging an incorrect cast...

CVE-2016-6351

The espdodma function in hw/scsi/esp.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator, when built with ESP/NCR53C9x controller emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors involvi...

CVE-2016-7157

The 1 mptsasconfigmanufacturing1 and 2 mptsasconfigioc0 functions in hw/scsi/mptconfig.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service QEMU process crash via vectors involving MPTSASCONFIGPACK...

CVE-2016-6834

The nettxpktdoswfragmentation function in hw/net/nettxpkt.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash via a zero length for the current fragment length...

Silicon Graphics LibTIFF Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Silicon Graphics LibTiff is a library for reading and writing TIFF Tagged Image File Format files from the U.S. company Silicon Graphics. The library contains a number of command-line tools to deal with TIFF files. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the libtiff/tifread.c file in...

ALPINE-CVE-2016-5403

The virtqueuepop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service memory consumption and QEMU process crash by submitting requests without waiting for completion...

Design/Logic Flaw

The virtqueuepop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service memory consumption and QEMU process crash by submitting requests without waiting for completion...