[Forgot Password]
Login  Register Subscribe

30389

 
 

423868

 
 

244625

 
 

909

 
 

193379

 
 

277

Paid content will be excluded from the download.


Download | Alert*
OVAL

ELSA-2013-0608 -- Oracle kvm-83

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1500034Date: (C)2013-03-20   (M)2023-12-07
Class: PATCHFamily: unix




Updated kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from theCVE link in the References section. KVM is a full virtualization solution forLinux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM emulated the e1000 network interface card when the host was configured to accept jumbo network frames, and a guest using the e1000 emulated driver was not. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with root privileges in the guest. All users of kvm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct this issue. Note that the procedurein the Solution section must be performed before this update will take effect.

Platform:
Oracle Linux 5
Product:
kvm-83
Reference:
ELSA-2013-0608
CVE-2012-6075
CVE    1
CVE-2012-6075
CPE    2
cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5
cpe:/a:kvm-83:kvm-83

© SecPod Technologies