[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: kvm-60-2.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-1993
2008-02-25 22:16:38
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Name        : kvm
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 60
Release     : 2.fc8
URL         : http://kvm.sf.net
Summary     : Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Description :
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution
for Linux on x86 hardware.

Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux
or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware:
a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

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Update Information:

Ian Jackson discovered that accesses beyond end of qemu emulated disk devices
can result in accesses to emulator's virtual memory space accesses and thus can
allow user with sufficient privilege in guest (root, as this would need
modification to kernel's driver) to break out of VM.    http://marc.info/?l
=debian-security&m=120343592917055&w=2
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Feb 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 60-2.fc8
- Fix block device extents check (rhbz #433560)
* Thu Jan 31 2008 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> 
- We don't need e2fsprogs-devel to build anymore (#331871)
* Thu Jan 24 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 60-1.fc9
- Updated to kvm-60
- Fix license tag to keep rpmlint quiet
- Remove unused PPC, Sparc and PPC Video BIOS
* Tue Jan 15 2008 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>: - 59-1
- add upstream patch to fix VMs that no longer boot (#427317)
- update to kvm-59
* Thu Dec 27 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 58-2
- Fix up defaults patch to apply
* Thu Dec 27 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 58-1
- Update to kvm-58
* Thu Dec 13 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 56-1
- Update to kvm-56
* Tue Dec  4 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 55-1
- Update to kvm-55
* Mon Dec  3 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 54-1
- update to kvm-54
* Tue Nov 20 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 53-1
- update to kvm-53
* Wed Nov  7 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 51-1
- update to kvm-51
* Tue Nov  6 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 50-1
- update to kvm-50, drop all the patches that have gone upstream
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #433560 - Qemu insufficient block device address range checking
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433560
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update kvm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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