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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3262-1 (xen - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.7
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
8 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy disk drive, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary code. This only affects HVM guests.
Affected Software
Affected Software
xen on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.4-3+deb7u6. The stable distribution (jessie) is already fixed through the qemu update provided as DSA-3259-1. We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.