ELSA-2015-2694 Important: Oracle Linux qemu-kvm security update
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
12/22/2015
07/25/2018
12/24/2015
04/11/2019
Description
Buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU, when a guest NIC has a larger MTU, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or execute arbitrary code via a large packet.
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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