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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2014.1278.1
Category:SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2014:1278-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'kvm' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2014:1278-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'kvm' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2014:1278-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
kvm has been updated to fix issues in the embedded qemu:

*

CVE-2014-0223: An integer overflow flaw was found in the QEMU block driver for QCOW version 1 disk images. A user able to alter the QEMU disk image files loaded by a guest could have used this flaw to corrupt QEMU process memory on the host, which could potentially have resulted in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges
of the QEMU process.

*

CVE-2014-3461: A user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the wire during migration) could have used this flaw to corrupt QEMU process memory on the (destination) host, which could have potentially resulted in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

*

CVE-2014-0222: An integer overflow flaw was found in the QEMU block driver for QCOW version 1 disk images. A user able to alter the QEMU disk image files loaded by a guest could have used this flaw to corrupt QEMU process memory on the host, which could have potentially resulted in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges
of the QEMU process.

Non-security bugs fixed:

* Fix exceeding IRQ routes that could have caused freezes of guests.
(bnc#876842)
* Fix CPUID emulation bugs that may have broken Windows guests with
newer -cpu types (bnc#886535)

Security Issues:

* CVE-2014-0222
* CVE-2014-0223
* CVE-2014-3461

Affected Software/OS:
'kvm' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-0222
67357
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67357
DSA-3044
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3044
FEDORA-2014-6288
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133345.html
FEDORA-2014-6970
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134053.html
SUSE-SU-2015:0929
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00021.html
[Qemu-devel] 20140512 [PATCH 3/5] qcow1: Validate L2 table size (CVE-2014-0222)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg02155.html
[Qemu-stable] 20140723 [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.7.2 Stable released
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2014-07/msg00187.html
openSUSE-SU-2015:1965
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-0223
67391
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67391
[Qemu-devel] 20140512 [PATCH 4/5] qcow1: Validate image size (CVE-2014-0223)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg02156.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-3461
RHSA-2014:0743
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0743.html
RHSA-2014:0744
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0744.html
[qemu-devel] 20140512 [PATCH] usb: fix up post load checks
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/272092
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