Security update for kvm
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2016:0010-1 |
| Rating: | important |
| References: | #947164 #950590 #953187 #956829 #957162 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.
Description:
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
https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017048
- 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)
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:
zypper in -t patch slessp4-kvm-12293=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4:
zypper in -t patch sledsp4-kvm-12293=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (i586 s390x x86_64):
- kvm-1.4.2-35.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 (i586 x86_64):
- kvm-1.4.2-35.1