libspice, as used in QEMU-KVM in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and qspice 0.3.0, does not properly restrict the addresses upon which memory-management actions are performed, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Updated rhev-hypervisor packages that fix multiple security issues and two bugs are now available.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The rhev-hypervisor package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It includes everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A subset of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Agent.

Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host did not validate all pointers provided from a guest system's QXL graphics card driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause the host to dereference an invalid pointer, causing the guest to crash (denial of service) or, possibly, resulting in the privileged guest user escalating their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0428)

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host could be forced to perform certain memory management operations on memory addresses controlled by a guest. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest (denial of service) or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0429)

It was found that QEMU-KVM on the host did not validate all pointers provided from a guest system's QXL graphics card driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause the host to dereference an invalid pointer, causing the guest to crash (denial of service) or, possibly, resulting in the privileged guest user escalating their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0431)

A flaw was found in QEMU-KVM, allowing the guest some control over the index used to access the callback array during sub-page MMIO initialization. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest (denial of service) or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-2784)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found when Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor was run on a system that has a processor with the Intel VT-x extension enabled. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to trick the host into emulating a certain instruction, which could crash the host (denial of service). (CVE-2010-0435)

A flaw was found in the way VDSM accepted SSL connections. An attacker could trigger this flaw by creating a crafted SSL connection to VDSM, preventing VDSM from accepting SSL connections from other users.
(CVE-2010-2811)

These updated packages provide updated components that include fixes for security issues; however, these issues have no security impact for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor. These fixes are for avahi issues CVE-2009-0758 and CVE-2010-2244; freetype issues CVE-2010-1797, CVE-2010-2498, CVE-2010-2499, CVE-2010-2500, CVE-2010-2519, CVE-2010-2527, and CVE-2010-2541; kernel issues CVE-2010-1084, CVE-2010-2066, CVE-2010-2070, CVE-2010-2226, CVE-2010-2248, CVE-2010-2521, and CVE-2010-2524; and openldap issues CVE-2010-0211 and CVE-2010-0212.

These updated rhev-hypervisor packages also fix two bugs.
Documentation for these bug fixes will be available shortly from http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_fo r_Servers /2.2/html/Technical_Notes/index.html

As Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is based on KVM, the bug fixes from the KVM update RHSA-2010:0627 have been included in this update. Also included are the bug fixes from the VDSM update RHSA-2010:0628.

KVM: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html VDSM:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0628.html

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to upgrade to these updated rhev-hypervisor packages, which resolve these issues.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0633 advisory.

    [0.3.0-54.el5_5.2]
    - Fix unsafe accesses       + spice: drop libpng from windows components (537849)       + libspice: fix unsafe guest data accessing     Resolves: #568719       + fix unsafe free() call.
    Resolves: #568723       + spice server: fix unsafe cursor items handling.
    Resolves: #568719

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated qspice packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host did not validate all pointers provided from a guest system's QXL graphics card driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause the host to dereference an invalid pointer, causing the guest to crash (denial of service) or, possibly, resulting in the privileged guest user escalating their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0428)

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host could be forced to perform certain memory management operations on memory addresses controlled by a guest. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest (denial of service) or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0429)

All qspice users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host did not validate all pointers provided from a guest system's QXL graphics card driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause the host to dereference an invalid pointer, causing the guest to crash (denial of service) or, possibly, resulting in the privileged guest user escalating their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0428)

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host could be forced to perform certain memory management operations on memory addresses controlled by a guest. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest (denial of service) or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0429)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79276	RHEL 5 : rhev-hypervisor (RHSA-2010:0622)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
68086	Oracle Linux 5 : qspice (ELSA-2010-0633)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
63948	RHEL 5 : qspice (RHSA-2010:0633)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
60838	Scientific Linux Security Update : qspice on SL5.x x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
48911	CentOS 5 : qspice (CESA-2010:0633)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium

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