SB2018111104 - OpenSUSE Linux update for qemu

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11806)

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

The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer overflow when insufficient input and validation checking of Slirp networking back-end processes by the m_cat function, as defined in the slirp/mbuf.c source code file. A remote attacker can send malformed, fragmented packets, trigger memory corruption and cause the QEMU process to crash.

2) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12617)

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

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in qmp_guest_file_read in qga/commands-posix.c and qga/commands-win32.c in qemu-ga (aka QEMU Guest Agent). A remote attacker can send a specially crafted QMP command (including guest-file-read with a large count value) to the agent via the listening socket, cause a g_malloc0() call to trigger a segmentation fault when trying to allocate a large memory chunk and cause the service to crash.

3) Speculative Store Bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-3639)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to race conditions in CPU cache processing. A local attacker can conduct a side-channel attack to exploit a flaw in the speculative execution of Load and Store instructions to read privileged memory.

Note: the vulnerability is referred to as "Spectre variant 4".

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-11/msg00013.html