SUSE-SU-2015:1782-1

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SUSE-SU-2015:1782-1

Summary: Security update for qemu

Details: qemu was updated to fix several security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: - CVE-2015-5154: Heap-based buffer overflow in the IDE subsystem in QEMU, when the container has a CDROM drive enabled, allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code on the host via unspecified ATAPI commands. (bsc#938344). - CVE-2015-5278: QEMU was vulnerable to an infinite loop issue that could occur when receiving packets over the network. (bsc#945989) - CVE-2015-5279: QEMU was vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow issue that could occur when receiving packets over the network. (bsc#945987) - CVE-2015-6855: QEMU was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue that could occur while executing an IDE command WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX to determine the maximum size of a drive. (bsc#945404) - CVE-2014-7815: The set_pixel_format function in ui/vnc.c in QEMU allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small bytes_per_pixel value. (bsc#902737): Also these non-security issues were fixed: - bsc#937572: Fixed dictzip on big endian systems - bsc#934517: Fix 'info tlb' causes guest to freeze - bsc#934506: Fix vte monitor consol looks empy - bsc#937125: Fix parsing of scsi-disk wwn uint64 property - bsc#945778: Drop .probe hooks for DictZip and tar block drivers - bsc#937572: Fold common-obj-y -> block-obj-y change into original patches - bsc#928308,bsc#944017: Fix virtio-ccw index errors when initrd gets too large - bsc#936537: Fix possible qemu-img error when converting to compressed qcow2 image - bsc#939216: Fix reboot fail after install using uefi - bsc#943446: qemu-img convert doesn't create MB aligned VHDs anymore

References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2015/suse-su-20151782-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/902737, https://bugzilla.suse.com/928308, https://bugzilla.suse.com/934506, https://bugzilla.suse.com/934517, https://bugzilla.suse.com/936537, https://bugzilla.suse.com/937125, https://bugzilla.suse.com/937572, https://bugzilla.suse.com/938344, https://bugzilla.suse.com/939216, https://bugzilla.suse.com/943446, https://bugzilla.suse.com/944017, https://bugzilla.suse.com/945404, https://bugzilla.suse.com/945778, https://bugzilla.suse.com/945987, https://bugzilla.suse.com/945989, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7815, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5154, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5278, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5279, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6855