SUSE-SU-2018:2973-2

Source
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20182973-2/
Import Source
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2018:2973-2.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/SUSE-SU-2018:2973-2
Upstream
Related
Published
2018-10-18T12:49:31Z
Modified
2026-03-11T06:57:20Z
Summary
Security update for qemu
Details

This update for qemu fixes the following security issues:

  • CVE-2018-12617: qmp_guest_file_read had an integer overflow that could have been exploited by sending a crafted QMP command (including guest-file-read with a large count value) to the agent via the listening socket causing DoS (bsc#1098735)
  • CVE-2018-11806: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow via incoming fragmented datagrams (bsc#1096223)

With this release the mitigations for Spectre v4 are moved the the patches from upstream (CVE-2018-3639, bsc#1092885).

References

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL / qemu

Package

Name
qemu
Purl
pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCL

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.6.2-41.43.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "qemu":  "2.6.2-41.43.3",
            "qemu-block-curl":  "2.6.2-41.43.3",
            "qemu-block-rbd":  "2.6.2-41.43.3",
            "qemu-block-ssh":  "2.6.2-41.43.3",
            "qemu-guest-agent":  "2.6.2-41.43.3",
            "qemu-ipxe":  "1.0.0-41.43.3",
            "qemu-kvm":  "2.6.2-41.43.3",
            "qemu-lang":  "2.6.2-41.43.3",
            "qemu-seabios":  "1.9.1-41.43.3",
            "qemu-sgabios":  "8-41.43.3",
            "qemu-tools":  "2.6.2-41.43.3",
            "qemu-vgabios":  "1.9.1-41.43.3",
            "qemu-x86":  "2.6.2-41.43.3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2018:2973-2.json"