RHSA-2013:0608High

Red Hat Security Advisory: kvm security update

Published
March 7, 2013
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2012-6075 →

📋 Description

CVE-2012-6075 — qemu: e1000 driver buffer overflow when processing large packets when SBP and LPE flags are disabled

🎯 Affected products8

  • RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • kmod-kvm-0:83-262.el5_9.1.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • kmod-kvm-debug-0:83-262.el5_9.1.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • kvm-0:83-262.el5_9.1.src as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • kvm-0:83-262.el5_9.1.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • kvm-debuginfo-0:83-262.el5_9.1.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • kvm-qemu-img-0:83-262.el5_9.1.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • kvm-tools-0:83-262.el5_9.1.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 The following procedure must be performed before this update will take effect: 1) Stop all KVM guest virtual machines. 2) Either reboot the hypervisor machine or, as the root user, remove (using "modprobe -r [module]") and reload (using "modprobe [module]") all of the following modules which are currently running (determined using "lsmod"): kvm, ksm, kvm-intel or kvm-amd. 3) Restart the KVM guest virtual machines.

🔗 References (4)