• [SECURITY] [DSA 3088-1] qemu-kvm security update

    From Salvatore Bonaccorso@1:229/2 to All on Thu Dec 4 15:00:03 2014
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3088-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso December 04, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : qemu-kvm
    CVE ID : CVE-2014-8106

    Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat discovered that the blit region checks were insufficient in the Cirrus VGA emulator in qemu-kvm, a full
    virtualization solution on x86 hardware. A privileged guest user could
    use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileges to those of the qemu host process.

    For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u6.

    We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
    these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
    found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: [email protected]
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