Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.870605
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Update for qemu-kvm RHSA-2011:0919-01
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'qemu-kvm'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'qemu-kvm' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. qemu-kvm is the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM. It was found that the virtio subsystem in qemu-kvm did not properly validate virtqueue in and out requests from the guest. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to trigger a buffer overflow, allowing them to crash the guest (denial of service) or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host. (CVE-2011-2212) It was found that the virtio_queue_notify() function in qemu-kvm did not perform sufficient input validation on the value later used as an index into the array of virtqueues. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest (denial of service) or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host. (CVE-2011-2512) Red Hat would like to thank Nelson Elhage for reporting CVE-2011-2212. This update also fixes the following bug: * A bug was found in the way vhost (in qemu-kvm) set up mappings with the host kernel's vhost module. This could result in the host kernel's vhost module not having a complete view of a guest system's memory, if that guest had more than 4 GB of memory. Consequently, hot plugging a vhost-net network device and restarting the guest may have resulted in that device no longer working. (BZ#701771) All users of qemu-kvm should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. 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. Affected Software/OS: qemu-kvm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. CVSS Score: 7.4 CVSS Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2212 45158 http://secunia.com/advisories/45158 45170 http://secunia.com/advisories/45170 45187 http://secunia.com/advisories/45187 45188 http://secunia.com/advisories/45188 45301 http://secunia.com/advisories/45301 45354 http://secunia.com/advisories/45354 74751 http://www.osvdb.org/74751 DSA-2282 https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2282 RHSA-2011:0919 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0919.html SUSE-SU-2011:0806 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/9605323 USN-1165-1 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1165-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713589 openSUSE-SU-2011:0803 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00007.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2512 44458 http://secunia.com/advisories/44458 44648 http://secunia.com/advisories/44648 DSA-2270 https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2270 [oss-security] 20110628 CVE request: qemu-kvm: OOB memory access caused by negative vq notifies http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/28/13 [oss-security] 20110629 Re: CVE request: qemu-kvm: OOB memory access caused by negative vq notifies http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/29/15 http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7157e2e23e89adcd436caeab31fdd6b47eded377
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