Important: kvm security update
Security Advisory: Important
An update for kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives
a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
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.
Security Fix(es):
Red Hat would like to thank Wei Xiao (360 Marvel Team) and Qinghao Tang (360
Marvel Team) for reporting CVE-2016-3710 and hongzhenhao (Marvel Team) for
reporting CVE-2016-5403.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in
this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
Note: The procedure in the Solution section must be performed before this update
will take effect.