Synopsis:          Moderate: qemu-kvm security update

Advisory ID:       SLSA-2015:1833-1

Issue Date:        2015-09-22

CVE Numbers:       CVE-2015-5165

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An information leak flaw was found in the way QEMU's RTL8139 emulation

implementation processed network packets under RTL8139 controller's C+

mode of operation. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to read

up to 65 KB of uninitialized QEMU heap memory. (CVE-2015-5165)



After installing this update, shut down all running virtual machines. Once

all virtual machines have shut down, start them again for this update to

take effect.

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SL6

  x86_64

    qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm

    qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm

    qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm

    qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm

    qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm

  i386

    qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.i686.rpm

    qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.1.i686.rpm



- Scientific Linux Development Team