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HistoryMay 13, 2015 - 6:37 p.m.

kmod, kvm security update

2015-05-1318:37:00
CentOS Project
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7.7 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

ADJACENT_NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

41.0%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1003

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for
Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems.

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU’s virtual
Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) handled FIFO buffer access while processing
certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash
the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the
privileges of the host’s QEMU process corresponding to the guest.
(CVE-2015-3456)

Red Hat would like to thank Jason Geffner of CrowdStrike for reporting
this issue.

All kvm users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Note: The procedure in
the Solution section must be performed before this update will take effect.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-May/083301.html

Affected packages:
kmod-kvm
kmod-kvm-debug
kvm
kvm-qemu-img
kvm-tools

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1003

7.7 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

ADJACENT_NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

41.0%