SB2018041054 - Red Hat update for qemu-kvm



SB2018041054 - Red Hat update for qemu-kvm

Published: April 10, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018041054
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 5
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 20% Low 80%
  • Low
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  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13672)

The vulnerability allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read. An adjacent attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.

2) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13711)

The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the Slirp networking implementation due to use-after-free error when a Socket referenced from multiple packets is freed while responding to a message.  An adjacent attacker can cause the service to crash.


3) Memory allocation (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15124)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to uncontrolled memory allocation when not throttling the framebuffer updates sent to the client. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.

4) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15268)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoІ condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in io/channel-websock.c due to memory leak in slow data-channel read operations. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.


5) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5683)

The vulnerability allows an adjacent low-privileged attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the vga_draw_text function due to out-of-bounds read. A remote attacker can leverage improper memory address validation, trigger memory error and cause QEMU process to crash.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.