openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2019-254)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 122495
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
Description
This update for qemu fixes the following issues :
Security issues fixed :
- CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow issue in the SLiRP networking implementation (bsc#1123156).
- CVE-2018-16872: Fixed a host security vulnerability related to handling symlinks in usb-mtp (bsc#1119493).
- CVE-2018-19489: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability in virtfs (bsc#1117275).
- CVE-2018-19364: Fixed a use-after-free if the virtfs interface resulting in a denial of service (bsc#1116717).
- CVE-2018-18954: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability related to PowerPC PowerNV memory operations (bsc#1114957).
Non-security issues fixed :
- Improved disk performance for qemu on xen (bsc#1100408).
- Fixed xen offline migration (bsc#1079730, bsc#1101982, bsc#1063993).
- Fixed pwrite64/pread64/write to return 0 over -1 for a zero length NULL buffer in qemu (bsc#1121600).
- Use /bin/bash to echo value into sys fs for ksm control (bsc#1112646).
- Return specification exception for unimplemented diag 308 subcodes rather than a hardware error (bsc#1123179).
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
Solution
Update the affected qemu packages.