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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1351-1 (bochs)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to bochs announced via advisory DSA 1351-1.

Insight

Insight

Tavis Ormandy discovered that bochs, a highly portable IA-32 PC emulator, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the emulated NE2000 network device driver, which may lead to privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1+20041109-3sarge1. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3-2etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3+20070705-1. We recommend that you upgrade your bochs packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201351-1

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