Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-5403: ELSA-2016-1606: qemu-kvm security update (MODERATE)
Description
The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion. Quick Emulator (QEMU) built with the virtio framework is vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation issue. It was found that a malicious guest user could submit more requests than the virtqueue size permits. Processing a request allocates a VirtQueueElement results in unbounded memory allocation on the host controlled by the guest.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libcacard
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libcacard-devel
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libcacard-tools
- oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-img
- oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm
- oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common
- oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools
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