[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1320-1: important: Security update for qemu

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for qemu

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1320-1

Rating: important

References: #740165 #777084

Cross-References: CVE-2012-0029 CVE-2012-3515

Affected Products:

SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2

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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

 

Description:

 

 

The qemu vt100 emulation was affected by a problem where

specific vt100 sequences could have been used by guest

users to affect the host. (CVE-2012-3515 aka XSA-17).

 

CVE-2012-0029: A buffer overflow in the e1000 device

emulation was fixed

 

Security Issue references:

 

* CVE-2012-3515

 

* CVE-2012-0029

 

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2:

 

zypper in -t patch slestso12-qemu-6852

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 (x86_64):

 

qemu-0.10.1-0.5.7.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0029.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3515.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/740165

https://bugzilla.novell.com/777084

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=86d45c23c62093dbb012d29f065b7abe

 

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