kvm was updated to fix 33 security issues.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-4439: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation     (bsc#980711)

  - CVE-2016-4441: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation     (bsc#980723)

  - CVE-2016-3710: Fixed VGA emulation based OOB access with     potential for guest escape (bsc#978158)

  - CVE-2016-3712: Fixed VGa emulation based DOS and OOB     read access exploit (bsc#978160)

  - CVE-2016-4037: Fixed USB ehci based DOS (bsc#976109)

  - CVE-2016-2538: Fixed potential OOB access in USB net     device emulation (bsc#967969)

  - CVE-2016-2841: Fixed OOB access / hang in ne2000     emulation (bsc#969350)

  - CVE-2016-2858: Avoid potential DOS when using QEMU     pseudo random number generator (bsc#970036)

  - CVE-2016-2857: Fixed OOB access when processing IP     checksums (bsc#970037)

  - CVE-2016-4001: Fixed OOB access in Stellaris enet     emulated nic (bsc#975128)

  - CVE-2016-4002: Fixed OOB access in MIPSnet emulated     controller (bsc#975136)

  - CVE-2016-4020: Fixed possible host data leakage to guest     from TPR access (bsc#975700)

  - CVE-2015-3214: Fixed OOB read in i8254 PIC (bsc#934069)

  - CVE-2014-9718: Fixed the handling of malformed or short     ide PRDTs to avoid any opportunity for guest to cause     DoS by abusing that interface (bsc#928393)

  - CVE-2014-3689: Fixed insufficient parameter validation     in rectangle functions (bsc#901508)

  - CVE-2014-3615: The VGA emulator in QEMU allowed local     guest users to read host memory by setting the display     to a high resolution (bsc#895528).

  - CVE-2015-5239: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and     protocol_client_msg() (bsc#944463).

  - CVE-2015-5278: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive()     function (bsc#945989).

  - CVE-2015-5279: Heap-based buffer overflow in the     ne2000_receive function in hw/net/ne2000.c in QEMU     allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service     (instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via     vectors related to receiving packets (bsc#945987).

  - CVE-2015-5745: Buffer overflow in virtio-serial     (bsc#940929).

  - CVE-2015-6855: hw/ide/core.c in QEMU did not properly     restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which     allowed guest users to cause a denial of service or     possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE     commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX     command to an empty drive, which triggers a     divide-by-zero error and instance crash (bsc#945404).

  - CVE-2015-7295: hw/virtio/virtio.c in the Virtual Network     Device (virtio-net) support in QEMU, when big or     mergeable receive buffers are not supported, allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest     network consumption) via a flood of jumbo frames on the     (1) tuntap or (2) macvtap interface (bsc#947159).

  - CVE-2015-7549: PCI NULL pointer dereferences     (bsc#958917).

  - CVE-2015-8504: VNC floating point exception     (bsc#958491).

  - CVE-2015-8558: Infinite loop in ehci_advance_state     resulting in DoS (bsc#959005).

  - CVE-2015-8613: Wrong sized memset in megasas command     handler (bsc#961358).

  - CVE-2015-8619: Potential DoS for long HMP sendkey     command argument (bsc#960334).

  - CVE-2015-8743: OOB memory access in ne2000 ioport r/w     functions (bsc#960725).

  - CVE-2016-1568: AHCI use-after-free in aio port commands     (bsc#961332).

  - CVE-2016-1714: Potential OOB memory access in processing     firmware configuration (bsc#961691).

  - CVE-2016-1922: NULL pointer dereference when processing     hmp i/o command (bsc#962320).

  - CVE-2016-1981: Potential DoS (infinite loop) in e1000     device emulation by malicious privileged user within     guest (bsc#963782).

  - CVE-2016-2198: Malicious privileged guest user were able     to cause DoS by writing to read-only EHCI capabilities     registers (bsc#964413).

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.

Xen was updated to fix the following vulnerabilities :

CVE-2014-0222: Qcow1 L2 table size integer overflows (bsc#877642)

CVE-2015-4037: Insecure temporary file use in /net/slirp.c (bsc#932267)

CVE-2015-5239: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and protocol_client_msg() (bsc#944463)

CVE-2015-7504: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in pcnet emulator (XSA-162, bsc#956411)

CVE-2015-7971: Some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate limiting (XSA-152, bsc#950706)

CVE-2015-8104: Guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception (bsc#954405)

CVE-2015-5307: Guest to host DOS by intercepting #AC (XSA-156, bsc#953527)

CVE-2015-8339: XENMEM_exchange error handling issues (XSA-159, bsc#956408)

CVE-2015-8340: XENMEM_exchange error handling issues (XSA-159, bsc#956408)

CVE-2015-7512: Buffer overflow in pcnet's non-loopback mode (bsc#962360)

CVE-2015-8550: Paravirtualized drivers incautious about shared memory contents (XSA-155, bsc#957988)

CVE-2015-8504: Avoid floating point exception in vnc support (bsc#958493)

CVE-2015-8555: Information leak in legacy x86 FPU/XMM initialization (XSA-165, bsc#958009)

Ioreq handling possibly susceptible to multiple read issue (XSA-166, bsc#958523)

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.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201602-01 (QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker might cause a Denial of Service or gain escalated       privileges from a guest VM.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
93169	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2016:1698-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/29/2016	1/27/2026	critical
89723	SUSE SLES10 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2016:0658-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/7/2016	1/6/2021	critical
88587	GLSA-201602-01 : QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities (Venom)	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	2/5/2016	1/11/2021	critical

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