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HistoryJan 04, 2016 - 2:11 p.m.

Security update for kvm (important)

2016-01-0414:11:45
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This update for kvm fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2015-7512: The receive packet size is now checked in the emulated
    pcnet driver, eliminating buffer overflow and potential security issue
    by malicious guest systems. (bsc#957162)
  • CVE-2015-8345: A infinite loop in processing command block list was
    fixed that could be exploit by malicious guest systems (bsc#956829).

Other bugs fixed:

  • To assist users past the migration incompatibility discussed in
    bsc#950590 (restore migration compatibility with SLE11 SP3 and SLE12, at
    the unfortunate expense to prior SLE11 SP4 kvm release compatability
    when a virtio-net device is used), print a message which references the
    support document TID 7017048. See
    <a href=“https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017048”>https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017048</a>
  • Fix cases of wrong clock values in kvmclock timekeeping (bsc#947164 and
    bsc#953187)
  • Enforce pxe rom sizes to ensure migration compatibility. (bsc#950590)
  • Fix kvm live migration fails between sles11 sp3 and sp4 (bsc#950590)