important: dovecot/qemu-kvm security update
important
An update for dovecot/qemu-kvm is now available for NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.06.
NewStart Security has rated this update as having a security impact of important. A Common Vunlnerability Scoring System(CVSS)base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVElink(s) in the References section.
dovecot: Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail in either of maildir or mbox formats. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages.
qemu-kvm: This package provides a qemu guest agent daemon to be running inside of linux guests to provide the guest information.
Security Fix(es):
dovecot: In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings. This occurs because '\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution.(CVE-2019-11500)
dovecot: bugfix
qemu-kvm: A heap buffer overflow issue was found in the way SLiRP networking back-end in QEMU processes fragmented packets. It could occur while reassembling the fragmented datagrams of an incoming packet. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or potentially leverage it to execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process.(CVE-2018-11806)
qemu-kvm: An integer overflow issue was found in the NE200 NIC emulation. It could occur while receiving packets from the network, if the size value was greater than INT_MAX. Such overflow would lead to stack buffer overflow issue. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in DoS scenario.(CVE-2018-10839)
qemu-kvm: An integer overflow issue was found in the AMD PC-Net II NIC emulation in QEMU. It could occur while receiving packets, if the size value was greater than INT_MAX. Such overflow would lead to stack buffer overflow issue. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS.(CVE-2018-17962)
qemu-kvm: A heap buffer overflow issue was found in the SLiRP networking implementation of the QEMU emulator. It occurs in tcp_emu() routine while emulating the Identification protocol and copying message data to a socket buffer. A user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in a DoS or potentially executing arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process.(CVE-2019-6778)
qemu-kvm: interface_release_resource in hw/display/qxl.c in QEMU 4.0.0 has a NULL pointer dereference.(CVE-2019-12155)
qemu-kvm: bugfix
Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
http://security.gd-linux.com/how_to_apply_patch.html
Remember the build tag is 4.06.F4.