[El-errata] ELSA-2010-0126 Important: Enterprise Linux 5 kvm security and bug fix update

Errata Announcements for Enterprise Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Mon Mar 1 19:45:38 PST 2010


Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2010-0126

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0126.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 5 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kmod-kvm-83-105.0.1.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-105.0.1.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-105.0.1.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-105.0.1.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/kvm-83-105.0.1.el5_4.27.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[kvm-83-105.0.1.el5_4.27]
- Add kvm-add-oracle-workaround-for-libvirt-bug.patch

[kvm-83-105.el5_4.27]
- kvm-kernel-KVM-VMX-Check-cpl-before-emulating-debug-register-ac.patch 
[bz#563516]
- Resolves: bz#563516
  (KVM: Check cpl before emulating debug register access [rhel-5.4.z])

[kvm-83-105.el5_4.26]
- kvm-kernel-KVM-Don-t-check-access-permission-when-loading-segme.patch 
[bz#563464]
- kvm-kernel-KVM-Disable-move-to-segment-registers-and-jump-far-i.patch 
[bz#563464]
- Resolves: bz#563464
  (EMBARGOED CVE-2010-0419 kvm: emulator privilege escalation segment 
selector check [rhel-5.4.z])

[kvm-83-105.el5_4.25]
- kvm-virtio-blk-Fix-reads-turned-into-writes-after-read-e.patch [bz#562776]
- kvm-virtio-blk-Handle-bdrv_aio_read-write-NULL-return.patch [bz#562776]
- Resolves: bz#562776
  (Guest image corruption after RHEV-H update to 5.4-2.1.3.el5_4rhev2_1)

[kvm-83-105.el5_4.24]
- Apply bz#561022 patches again (undo the reverts from kvm-83-105.el5_4.23)
- kvm-qemu-add-routines-for-atomic-16-bit-accesses-take-2.patch [bz#561022]
- kvm-qemu-virtio-atomic-access-for-index-values-take-2.patch [bz#561022]
- Resolves: bz#561022
  (QEMU terminates without warning with virtio-net and SMP enabled)

[kvm-83-105.el5_4.23]
- Revert bz#561022 patches by now, until they get better testing
- kvm-Revert-qemu-virtio-atomic-access-for-index-values.patch [bz#561022]
- kvm-Revert-qemu-add-routines-for-atomic-16-bit-accesses.patch [bz#561022]
- Related: bz#561022
  (QEMU terminates without warning with virtio-net and SMP enabled)





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