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Red Hat: CVE-2017-10664: Moderate: qemu-kvm security update (RHSA-2017:2445)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-10664: Moderate: qemu-kvm security update (RHSA-2017:2445)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/25/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/09/2017
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

qemu-nbd in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) does not ignore SIGPIPE, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by disconnecting during a server-to-client reply attempt.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-img
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

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