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  • [SECURITY] [DSA-2010-1] New kvm packages fix several vulnerabilities

    From dann frazier@1:229/2 to All on Wed Mar 10 19:30:03 2010
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2010 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Dann Frazier
    March 10, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : kvm
    Vulnerability : privilege escalation/denial of service
    Problem type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2010-0298 CVE-2010-0306 CVE-2010-0309 CVE-2010-0419

    Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in kvm, a full virtualization system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

    CVE-2010-0298 & CVE-2010-0306

    Gleb Natapov discovered issues in the KVM subsystem where missing
    permission checks (CPL/IOPL) permit a user in a guest system to
    denial of service a guest (system crash) or gain escalated
    privileges with the guest.

    CVE-2010-0309

    Marcelo Tosatti fixed an issue in the PIT emulation code in the
    KVM subsystem that allows privileged users in a guest domain to
    cause a denial of service (crash) of the host system.

    CVE-2010-0419

    Paolo Bonzini found a bug in KVM that can be used to bypass proper
    permission checking while loading segment selectors. This
    potentially allows privileged guest users to execute privileged
    instructions on the host system.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 72+dfsg-5~lenny5.

    For the testing distribution (squeeze), and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be addressed within the linux-2.6 package.

    We recommend that you upgrade your kvm package.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.

    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for amd64 and i386.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny5.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1341 14718fcd8584519702b567233d31abd6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3250251 899a66ae2ea94e994e06f637e1afef4a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny5.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 51204 40d0b0ba8df5fbd8cfc0c837b0da4db2

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm-source_72+dfsg-5~lenny5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 159990 7a50d4ad7242107fa3443fcf6a30197d

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1110560 df3bcd5f384fc054863dac9947f60ddb

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny5_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1034558 4f74cdb89f87634ef7c44c2a2d488a1a


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

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    For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
    Mailing list: [email protected]
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