metadata/glsa/glsa-201604-01.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201604-01">
  <title>QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of
    which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">QEMU</product>
  <announced>April 02, 2016</announced>
  <revised>April 02, 2016: 1</revised>
  <bug>569118</bug>
  <bug>569300</bug>
  <bug>571560</bug>
  <bug>572082</bug>
  <bug>572412</bug>
  <bug>572454</bug>
  <bug>573280</bug>
  <bug>573314</bug>
  <bug>574902</bug>
  <bug>575492</bug>
  <bug>576420</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/qemu" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.5.0-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.5.0-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Local users within a guest QEMU environment can execute arbitrary code
      within the host or a cause a Denial of Service condition of the QEMU
      guest process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All QEMU users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/qemu-2.5.0-r2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8613">CVE-2015-8613</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8619">CVE-2015-8619</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1714">CVE-2016-1714</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1922">CVE-2016-1922</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1981">CVE-2016-1981</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2197">CVE-2016-2197</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2198">CVE-2016-2198</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2392">CVE-2016-2392</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2538">CVE-2016-2538</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2858">CVE-2016-2858</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:05:49 +0000">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:57:26 +0000">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>