Issued:

2013-01-31

Updated:

2013-01-31

RHSA-2013:0218 - Moderate: xorg-x11-drv-qxl security update

Synopsis

Moderate: xorg-x11-drv-qxl security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An updated xorg-x11-drv-qxl package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

The xorg-x11-drv-qxl package provides an X11 video driver for the QEMU QXL video accelerator. This driver makes it possible to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a guest operating system under the KVM kernel module and the QEMU multi-platform emulator, using the SPICE protocol.

A flaw was found in the way the host's qemu-kvm qxl driver and the guest's X.Org qxl driver interacted when a SPICE connection terminated. A user able to initiate a SPICE connection to a guest could use this flaw to make the guest temporarily unavailable or, potentially (if the sysctl kernel.softlockup_panic variable was set to "1" in the guest), crash the guest. (CVE-2013-0241)

All users of xorg-x11-drv-qxl are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue. All running X.Org server instances using the qxl driver must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• xorg-x11-drv-qxl-debuginfo-0.0.14-14.el6_3.i686.rpm
• xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.0.14-14.el6_3.i686.rpm
• xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.0.14-14.el6_3.src.rpm
• xorg-x11-drv-qxl-debuginfo-0.0.14-14.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.0.14-14.el6_3.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 906032

CVEs

• CVE-2013-0241

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.