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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5403: Important: kvm security update ((Multiple Advisories))

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5403: Important: kvm security update ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/09/2016
Modified
01/17/2018

Description

The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kmod-kvm
  • redhat-upgrade-kmod-kvm-debug
  • redhat-upgrade-kvm
  • redhat-upgrade-kvm-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-kvm-qemu-img
  • redhat-upgrade-kvm-tools
  • redhat-upgrade-libcacard
  • redhat-upgrade-libcacard-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libcacard-tools
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-img
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-qemu-kvm-tools

References

  • RHSA-2016:1585
  • RHSA-2016:1586
  • RHSA-2016:1606
  • RHSA-2016:1607
  • RHSA-2016:1652
  • RHSA-2016:1653
  • RHSA-2016:1654
  • RHSA-2016:1655
  • RHSA-2016:1756
  • RHSA-2016:1763
  • RHSA-2016:1943
  • 92148
  • 1036476
  • USN-3047-1
  • USN-3047-2
  • USN-3125-1
  • CVE-2016-5403
  • DLA-573-1
  • DLA-574-1
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