An update for kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

Security Fix(es) :

* Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host. (CVE-2017-2615)

* Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on host with privileges of the QEMU process. (CVE-2017-2620)

Red Hat would like to thank Wjjzhang (Tencent.com Inc.) and Li Qiang (360.cn Inc.) for reporting CVE-2017-2615.

According to the versions of the qemu-kvm package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx     VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds     access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via     bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside     a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process     resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code     on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the     host. (CVE-2017-2615)

  - Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx     VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds     access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA     data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user     inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU     process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on host     with privileges of the QEMU process. (CVE-2017-2620)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0095 for details.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0096 for details.

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-10155: The virtual hardware watchdog     'wdt_i6300esb' was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue     allowing a privileged user to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1024183)

  - CVE-2017-2620: In CIRRUS_BLTMODE_MEMSYSSRC mode the     bitblit copy routine cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo failed to     check the memory region, allowing for an out-of-bounds     write that allows for privilege escalation (bsc#1024834)

  - CVE-2017-2615: An error in the bitblt copy operation     could have allowed a malicious guest administrator to     cause an out of bounds memory access, possibly leading     to information disclosure or privilege escalation     (bsc#1023004)

  - CVE-2014-8106: A heap-based buffer overflow in the     Cirrus VGA emulator allowed local guest users to execute     arbitrary code via vectors related to blit regions     (bsc#907805)

  - CVE-2016-9911: The USB EHCI Emulation support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while processing     packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014507)

  - CVE-2016-9921: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support     was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying     VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used     this flaw to crash the process instance on the host,     resulting in DoS (bsc#1015169)

  - CVE-2016-9922: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support     was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying     VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used     this flaw to crash the process instance on the host,     resulting in DoS (bsc#1015169)

  - CVE-2016-10013: Xen allowed local 64-bit x86 HVM guest     OS users to gain privileges by leveraging mishandling of     SYSCALL singlestep during emulation (bsc#1016340).

  - CVE-2016-9932: CMPXCHG8B emulation on x86 systems     allowed local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive     information from host stack memory via a     'supposedly-ignored' operand size prefix (bsc#1012651).

  - CVE-2016-9101: A memory leak in hw/net/eepro100.c     allowed local guest OS administrators to cause a denial     of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash)     by repeatedly unplugging an i8255x (PRO100) NIC device     (bsc#1013668)

  - CVE-2016-9776: The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller     emulator support was vulnerable to an infinite loop     issue while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A     privileged user/process inside guest could have used     this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading     to DoS (bsc#1013657)

  - A malicious guest could have, by frequently rebooting     over extended periods of time, run the host system out     of memory, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS)     (bsc#1022871)

  - CVE-2016-10024: Xen allowed local x86 PV guest OS kernel     administrators to cause a denial of service (host hang     or crash) by modifying the instruction stream     asynchronously while performing certain kernel     operations (bsc#1014298)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update for kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

Security Fix(es) :

* Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host. (CVE-2017-2615)

* Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on host with privileges of the QEMU process. (CVE-2017-2620)

Red Hat would like to thank Wjjzhang (Tencent.com Inc.) and Li Qiang (360.cn Inc.) for reporting CVE-2017-2615.

Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2020-0039 for details.

Several vulnerabilities were found in qemu, a fast processor emulator :

CVE-2015-8666

Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU when built with the Q35-chipset-based PC system emulator

CVE-2016-2198

NULL pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write in the USB EHCI support that may result in denial of service

CVE-2016-6833

Use after free while writing in the vmxnet3 device that could be used to cause a denial of service

CVE-2016-6835

Buffer overflow in vmxnet_tx_pkt_parse_headers() in vmxnet3 device that could result in denial of service

CVE-2016-8576

Infinite loop vulnerability in xhci_ring_fetch in the USB xHCI support

CVE-2016-8667 / CVE-2016-8669

Divide by zero errors in set_next_tick in the JAZZ RC4030 chipset emulator, and in serial_update_parameters of some serial devices, that could result in denial of service

CVE-2016-9602

Improper link following with VirtFS

CVE-2016-9603

Heap buffer overflow via vnc connection in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support

CVE-2016-9776

Infinite loop while receiving data in the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator

CVE-2016-9907

Memory leakage in the USB redirector usb-guest support 

CVE-2016-9911

Memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer in the USB EHCI support

CVE-2016-9914 / CVE-2016-9915 / CVE-2016-9916

Plan 9 File System (9pfs): add missing cleanup operation in FileOperations, in the handle backend and in the proxy backend driver

CVE-2016-9921 / CVE-2016-9922

Divide by zero in cirrus_do_copy in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support 

CVE-2016-10155

Memory leak in hw/watchdog/wdt_i6300esb.c allowing local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service via a large number of device unplug operations.

CVE-2017-2615 / CVE-2017-2620 / CVE-2017-18030 / CVE-2018-5683 / CVE-2017-7718

Out-of-bounds access issues in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support, that could result in denial of service

CVE-2017-5525 / CVE-2017-5526

Memory leakage issues in the ac97 and es1370 device emulation

CVE-2017-5579

Most memory leakage in the 16550A UART emulation

CVE-2017-5667

Out-of-bounds access during multi block SDMA transfer in the SDHCI emulation support.

CVE-2017-5715

Mitigations against the Spectre v2 vulnerability. For more information please refer to https://www.qemu.org/2018/01/04/spectre/

CVE-2017-5856

Memory leak in the MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support

CVE-2017-5973 / CVE-2017-5987 / CVE-2017-6505

Infinite loop issues in the USB xHCI, in the transfer mode register of the SDHCI protocol, and the USB ohci_service_ed_list

CVE-2017-7377

9pfs: host memory leakage via v9fs_create

CVE-2017-7493

Improper access control issues in the host directory sharing via 9pfs support.

CVE-2017-7980

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA device that could allow local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service

CVE-2017-8086

9pfs: host memory leakage via v9pfs_list_xattr

CVE-2017-8112

Infinite loop in the VMWare PVSCSI emulation

CVE-2017-8309 / CVE-2017-8379

Host memory leakage issues via the audio capture buffer and the keyboard input event handlers 

CVE-2017-9330

Infinite loop due to incorrect return value in USB OHCI that may result in denial of service

CVE-2017-9373 / CVE-2017-9374

Host memory leakage during hot unplug in IDE AHCI and USB emulated devices that could result in denial of service

CVE-2017-9503

NULL pointer dereference while processing megasas command

CVE-2017-10806

Stack buffer overflow in USB redirector

CVE-2017-10911

Xen disk may leak stack data via response ring

CVE-2017-11434

Out-of-bounds read while parsing Slirp/DHCP options

CVE-2017-14167

Out-of-bounds access while processing multiboot headers that could result in the execution of arbitrary code

CVE-2017-15038

9pfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes

CVE-2017-15289

Out-of-bounds write access issue in the Cirrus graphic adaptor that could result in denial of service

CVE-2017-16845

Information leak in the PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation support that could be exploited during instance migration 

CVE-2017-18043

Integer overflow in the macro ROUND_UP (n, d) that could result in denial of service

CVE-2018-7550

Incorrect handling of memory during multiboot that could may result in execution of arbitrary code

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0248 for details.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
97611	CentOS 5 : kvm (CESA-2017:0454)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	3/9/2017	12/30/2025	critical
99882	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : qemu-kvm (EulerOS-SA-2017-1037)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/1/2017	12/22/2025	critical
99976	OracleVM 3.3 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0095)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	5/4/2017	12/22/2025	critical
99977	OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0096)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	5/4/2017	12/22/2025	critical
97828	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:0718-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/20/2017	12/29/2025	critical
101434	Virtuozzo 7 : kmod-kvm / kmod-kvm-debug / kvm / kvm-qemu-img / etc (VZLSA-2017-0454)	Nessus	Virtuozzo Local Security Checks	7/13/2017	12/11/2025	critical
140019	OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2020-0039) (Bunker Buster) (Foreshadow) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout) (Meltdown) (POODLE) (Spectre)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	8/28/2020	1/9/2026	critical
117351	Debian DLA-1497-1 : qemu security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	9/7/2018	8/8/2024	critical
111992	OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0248) (Bunker Buster) (Foreshadow) (Meltdown) (POODLE) (Spectre)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	8/20/2018	1/9/2026	critical

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