ELSA-2013-0609 -- Oracle qemu-kvm and qemu-guest-agentID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1500092 | Date: (C)2013-03-20 (M)2023-12-07 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from theCVE link in the References section. KVM is a full virtualization solution forLinux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. qemu-kvm is the user-space componentfor running virtual machines using KVM.A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM emulated the e1000 network interfacecard when the host was configured to accept jumbo network frames, and aguest using the e1000 emulated driver was not. A remote attacker could usethis flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code withroot privileges in the guest. All users of qemu-kvm should upgrade to these updated packages, whichcontain backported patches to correct this issue. After installing thisupdate, shut down all running virtual machines. Once all virtual machineshave shut down, start them again for this update to take effect.
Product: |
qemu-kvm |
qemu-guest-agent |