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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2396-1 (qemu-kvm)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to qemu-kvm announced via advisory DSA 2396-1.

Insight

Insight

Nicolae Mogoraenu discovered a heap overflow in the emulated e1000e network interface card of KVM, a solution for full virtualization on x86 hardware, which could result in denial of service or privilege escalation. This update also fixes a guest-triggerable memory corruption in VNC handling. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze8. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0+dfsg-5.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.

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