Bug 1251157 (CVE-2015-5745)
| Summary: | CVE-2015-5745 kernel: qemu buffer overflow in virtio-serial | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | abaron, amit.shah, aortega, apevec, areis, ayoung, berrange, cfergeau, chrisw, dallan, dwmw2, gkotton, itamar, jen, knoel, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mkenneth, mrezanin, mst, pbonzini, ppandit, rbalakri, rbryant, rjones, sclewis, tdecacqu, virt-maint, virt-maint, yeylon |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
Qemu emulator built with the virtio-serial vmchannel support is vulnerable to a buffer overflow issue, while exchanging virtio control messages between guest & the host. A malicious guest could use this flaw to corrupt few bytes of Qemu memory area, potentially crashing the Qemu process.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2015-08-26 17:22:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1251160, 1251354 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1247784 | ||
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Description
Vasyl Kaigorodov
2015-08-06 15:23:13 UTC
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1251160] Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. Created xen tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1251354] qemu-2.3.1-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. qemu-2.4.0-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. qemu-2.1.3-9.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xen-4.5.1-9.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xen-4.5.1-9.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xen-4.4.3-4.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |