An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es) :

* Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of QEMU process on the host. (CVE-2017-2615)

* Quick emulator (QEMU) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on host with privileges of the QEMU process. (CVE-2017-2620)

Red Hat would like to thank Wjjzhang (Tencent.com Inc.) and Li Qiang (360.cn Inc.) for reporting CVE-2017-2615.

Bug Fix(es) :

* When using the virtio-blk driver on a guest virtual machine with no space on the virtual hard drive, the guest terminated unexpectedly with a 'block I/O error in device' message and the qemu-kvm process exited with a segmentation fault. This update fixes how the system_reset QEMU signal is handled in the above scenario. As a result, if a guest crashes due to no space left on the device, qemu-kvm continues running and the guest can be reset as expected.
(BZ#1420049)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0142 for details.

This update for kvm fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-2620: In CIRRUS_BLTMODE_MEMSYSSRC mode the     bitblit copy routine cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo failed to     check the memory region, allowing for an out-of-bounds     write that allows for privilege escalation (bsc#1024972)

  - CVE-2017-2615: An error in the bitblt copy operation     could have allowed a malicious guest administrator to     cause an out of bounds memory access, possibly leading     to information disclosure or privilege escalation     (bsc#1023004)

  - CVE-2016-9776: The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller     emulator support was vulnerable to an infinite loop     issue while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A     privileged user/process inside guest could have used     this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading     to DoS (bsc#1013285)

  - CVE-2016-9911: The USB EHCI Emulation support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while processing     packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014111)

  - CVE-2016-9907: The USB redirector usb-guest support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw when destroying the     USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for a host (bsc#1014109)

  - CVE-2016-9921: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support     was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying     VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used     this flaw to crash the process instance on the host,     resulting in DoS (bsc#1014702)

  - CVE-2016-9922: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support     was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying     VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used     this flaw to crash the process instance on the host,     resulting in DoS (bsc#1014702)

  - CVE-2017-5898: The CCID Card device emulator support was     vulnerable to an integer overflow allowing a privileged     user inside the guest to crash the Qemu process     resulting in DoS (bnc#1023907)

  - CVE-2016-10155: The virtual hardware watchdog     'wdt_i6300esb' was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue     allowing a privileged user to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1021129)

  - CVE-2017-5856: The MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter     emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage     issue allowing a privileged user to leak host memory     resulting in DoS (bsc#1023053)

  - CVE-2016-9602: The VirtFS host directory sharing via     Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support was vulnerable to an     improper link following issue which allowed a privileged     user inside guest to access host file system beyond the     shared folder and potentially escalating their     privileges on a host (bsc#1020427)

  - CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM     could have caused a heap overflow in the device model     process, potentially escalating their privileges to that     of the device model process (bsc#1028656)

  - CVE-2017-10664: qemu-nbd did not ignore SIGPIPE, which     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (daemon crash) by disconnecting during a     server-to-client reply attempt (bsc#1046636)

  - CVE-2017-10806: Stack-based buffer overflow allowed     local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU     process crash) via vectors related to logging debug     messages (bsc#1047674)

  - CVE-2017-11334: The address_space_write_continue     function allowed local guest OS privileged users to     cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and     guest instance crash) by leveraging use of     qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area     (bsc#1048902)

  - CVE-2017-11434: The dhcp_decode function in     slirp/bootp.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a     denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted     DHCP options string (bsc#1049381)

  - CVE-2017-13672: The VGA display emulator support allowed     local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of     service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via     vectors involving display update (bsc#1056334)

  - CVE-2017-14167: Integer overflow in the load_multiboot     function allowed local guest OS users to execute     arbitrary code on the host via crafted multiboot header     address values, which trigger an out-of-bounds write     (bsc#1057585)

  - CVE-2017-15038: Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk     function local guest OS users to obtain sensitive     information from host heap memory via vectors related to     reading extended attributes (bsc#1062069)

  - CVE-2017-15289: The mode4and5 write functions allowed     local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of     service (out-of-bounds write access and Qemu process     crash) via vectors related to dst calculation     (bsc#1063122)

  - CVE-2017-5579: The 16550A UART serial device emulation     support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue     allowing a privileged user to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1021741)

  - CVE-2017-5973: A infinite loop while doing control     transfer in xhci_kick_epctx allowed privileged user     inside the guest to crash the host process resulting in     DoS (bsc#1025109)

  - CVE-2017-6505: The ohci_service_ed_list function allowed     local guest OS users to cause a denial of service     (infinite loop) via vectors involving the number of link     endpoint list descriptors (bsc#1028184)

  - CVE-2017-7471: The VirtFS host directory sharing via     Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support was vulnerable to an     improper access control issue which allowed a privileged     user inside guest to access host file system beyond the     shared folder and potentially escalating their     privileges on a host (bsc#1034866)

  - CVE-2017-7493: The VirtFS, host directory sharing via     Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support, was vulnerable to an     improper access control issue. It could occur while     accessing virtfs metadata files in mapped-file security     mode. A guest user could have used this flaw to escalate     their privileges inside guest (bsc#1039495)

  - CVE-2017-7718: hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h allowed local     guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors     related to copying VGA data via the     cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_     functions (bsc#1034908)

  - CVE-2017-7980: An out-of-bounds r/w access issues in the     Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support allowed privileged     user inside guest to use this flaw to crash the Qemu     process resulting in DoS or potentially execute     arbitrary code on a host with privileges of Qemu process     on the host (bsc#1035406)

  - CVE-2017-8086: A memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr     function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c allowed local guest OS     privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value     variable (bsc#1035950)

  - CVE-2017-8309: Memory leak in the audio/audio.c allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) by repeatedly starting and stopping audio     capture (bsc#1037242)

  - CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite     loop) by leveraging an incorrect return value     (bsc#1042159)

  - CVE-2017-9373: The IDE AHCI Emulation support was     vulnerable to a host memory leakage issue, which allowed     a privileged user inside guest to leak host memory     resulting in DoS (bsc#1042801)

  - CVE-2017-9375: The USB xHCI controller emulator support     was vulnerable to an infinite recursive call loop issue,     which allowed a privileged user inside guest to crash     the Qemu process resulting in DoS (bsc#1042800)

  - CVE-2017-9503: The MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter     emulation support was vulnerable to a NULL pointer     dereference issue which allowed a privileged user inside     guest to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in     DoS (bsc#1043296)

  - Fix privilege escalation in TCG mode (bsc#1030624)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
97512	RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2017:0396)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	3/3/2017	10/24/2019	critical
102835	OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0142)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	8/30/2017	6/3/2021	critical
104780	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2017:3084-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/27/2017	6/3/2021	critical

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