Synopsis:          Important: qemu-kvm security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2015:1924-1
Issue Date:        2015-10-22
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2015-5279
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A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's NE2000 NIC
emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the
network. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the
QEMU instance (denial of service) or potentially execute arbitrary code on
the host. (CVE-2015-5279)

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_7.2.x86_64.rpm
    qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm
    qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm
    qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm
    qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  i386
    qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.i686.rpm
    qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.479.el6_7.2.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team