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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-10839) (Multiple Advisories): qemu-kvm security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-10839) (Multiple Advisories): qemu-kvm security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/16/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/30/2018
Modified
08/11/2023

Description

Qemu emulator <= 3.0.0 built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ivshmem-tools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-block-gluster
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-block-iscsi
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-block-rbd
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-img
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-core
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-system-aarch64
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-system-aarch64-core
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-system-x86
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-qemu-system-x86-core

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