Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.850774
Category:	SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:	SUSE: Security Advisory for kvm (SUSE-SU-2015:0870-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'kvm'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'kvm' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: This update for KVM fixes an issue in the virtio-blk driver which could result in incorrectly setting its WCE configuration. Under some circumstances, this misconfiguration could cause severe file system corruption, because cache flushes were not generated as they ought to have been. The update also addresses one security vulnerability: * CVE-2015-1779: Insufficient resource limiting in VNC websockets decoder. (bsc#924018) Affected Software/OS: kvm on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-1779 1033975 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033975 73303 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73303 DSA-3259 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259 FEDORA-2015-5482 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154656.html FEDORA-2015-5541 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155196.html GLSA-201602-01 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 RHSA-2015:1931 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1931.html RHSA-2015:1943 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1943.html SUSE-SU-2015:0870 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00033.html SUSE-SU-2015:0896 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00042.html USN-2608-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2608-1 [Qemu-devel] 20150323 [PATCH 0/2] CVE-2015-1779: fix denial of service in VNC websockets https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04894.html [Qemu-devel] 20150323 [PATCH 1/2] CVE-2015-1779: incrementally decode websocket frames https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04896.html [Qemu-devel] 20150323 [PATCH 2/2] CVE-2015-1779: limit size of HTTP headers from websockets clients https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04895.html [oss-security] 20150324 CVE-2015-1779 qemu: vnc: insufficient resource limiting in VNC websockets decoder http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/24/9 [oss-security] 20150409 Re: CVE-2015-1779 qemu: vnc: insufficient resource limiting in VNC websockets decoder http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/09/6 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
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