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[RHSA-2015:2065-01] Important: xen security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Important: xen security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:2065-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2065.html

Issue date: 2015-11-16

CVE Names: CVE-2015-5279

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1. Summary:

 

Updated xen packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red

Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

 

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security

impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the

References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

The xen packages contain administration tools and the xend service for

managing the kernel-xen kernel for virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise

Linux.

 

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's NE2000 NIC

emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the network.

A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU

instance (denial of service) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the

host. (CVE-2015-5279)

 

Red Hat would like to thank Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. for reporting

this issue.

 

All xen users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which

contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the

updated packages, all running fully-virtualized guests must be restarted

for this update to take effect.

 

4. Solution:

 

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata

relevant to your system have been applied.

 

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

 

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

 

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

1256672 - CVE-2015-5279 qemu: Heap overflow vulnerability in ne2000_receive() function

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.src.rpm

 

i386:

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-libs-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

xen-libs-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-libs-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

 

RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.src.rpm

 

i386:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-devel-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

xen-devel-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-devel-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):

 

Source:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.src.rpm

 

i386:

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-libs-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

 

ia64:

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.ia64.rpm

xen-libs-3.0.3-147.el5_11.ia64.rpm

 

x86_64:

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

xen-libs-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-libs-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

 

RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server):

 

Source:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.src.rpm

 

i386:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-devel-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

 

ia64:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.ia64.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.ia64.rpm

xen-devel-3.0.3-147.el5_11.ia64.rpm

 

x86_64:

xen-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

xen-devel-3.0.3-147.el5_11.i386.rpm

xen-devel-3.0.3-147.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

 

7. References:

 

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5279

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc.

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