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ELSA-2014-0420 Moderate: Oracle Linux qemu-kvm security update

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ELSA-2014-0420 Moderate: Oracle Linux qemu-kvm security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/18/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/23/2014
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

Integer overflow in the virtio_net_handle_mac function in hw/net/virtio-net.c in QEMU 2.0 and earlier allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code via a MAC addresses table update request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-img
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

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