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FreeBSD Ports: qemu, qemu-devel

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.7

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following packages are affected: qemu qemu-devel CVE-2008-0928 Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block device read or write requests, which allows guest host users with root privileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://secunia.com/advisories/29172 http://secunia.com/advisories/29081 http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2008/02/msg00064.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/9cfbca7f-efb7-11dc-be01-0211060005df.html

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