Qemu emulator built with the NE2000 device emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while performing 'ioport' r/w operations. A privileged(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) user/process could use this flaw to leak or corrupt Qemu memory bytes(3). Upstream fix: ------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg00050.html Reference: ---------- -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/2
Statement: This issue affects the versions of the 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 the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This issue does not affect 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 1294788]
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1294787]
qemu-2.4.1-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
xen-4.5.2-7.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
xen-4.5.2-7.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
qemu-2.3.1-11.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.