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SUSE-SU-2018:2973-1 Not scored

Security update for qemu

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).

Exploit probability Not scored
Published October 2, 2018
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4 qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 qemu
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7 qemu

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2018:2973-1

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).

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence