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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2282-1 (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 2282-1.
Insight
Insight
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in KVM, a solution for full virtualization on x86 hardware: CVE-2011-2212 Nelson Elhage discovered a buffer overflow in the virtio subsystem, which could lead to denial of service or privilege escalation. CVE-2011-2527 Andrew Griffiths discovered that group privileges were insufficiently dropped when started with -runas option, resulting in privilege escalation. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze6. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.14.1+dfsg-3.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.