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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2230-1 (qemu-kvm)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to qemu-kvm announced via advisory DSA 2230-1.
Insight
Insight
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in KVM, a solution for full virtualization on x86 hardware: CVE-2011-0011 Setting the VNC password to an empty string silently disabled all authentication. CVE-2011-1750 The virtio-blk driver performed insufficient validation of read/write I/O from the guest instance, which could lead to denial of service or privilege escalation. The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze1. The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.