openSUSE Security Update: kvm security update ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0510-1 Rating: moderate References: #689895 #690781 Cross-References: CVE-2011-1750 CVE-2011-1751 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 openSUSE 11.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. It includes one version update. Description: By causing a hot-unplug of the pci-isa bridge from within guests the qemu process could access already freed memory. A privileged user inside the guest could exploit that to crash the guest instance or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host (CVE-2011-1751). The virtio-blk driver did not properly validate read and write request. A privileged user inside the guest could exploit that to cause a heap corruption and crash the guest instance or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host (CVE-2011-1750). Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch kvm-4582 - openSUSE 11.3: zypper in -t patch kvm-4582 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): kvm-0.14.0.0-1.6.1 - openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 0.12.5]: kvm-0.12.5-1.4.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1750.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1751.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/689895 https://bugzilla.novell.com/690781