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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2017-2620) (Multiple Advisories): qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2017-2620) (Multiple Advisories): qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/21/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/02/2017
Modified
01/22/2020

Description

Quick emulator (QEMU) before 2.8 built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on host with privileges of the QEMU process.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kmod-kvm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kmod-kvm-debug
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kvm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kvm-qemu-img
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kvm-tools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-img
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

References

  • ELSA-2017-1856
  • RHSA-2017:0328
  • RHSA-2017:0329
  • RHSA-2017:0330
  • RHSA-2017:0331
  • RHSA-2017:0332
  • RHSA-2017:0333
  • RHSA-2017:0334
  • RHSA-2017:0350
  • RHSA-2017:0351
  • RHSA-2017:0352
  • RHSA-2017:0396
  • RHSA-2017:0454
  • 96378
  • 1037870
  • GLSA-201703-07
  • GLSA-201704-01
  • CVE-2017-2620
  • DLA-842-1
  • DLA-845-1
  • USN-3261-1
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