Debian 5.0 Lenny DSA-1846-1 Critical: KVM Denial Of Service

Matt T. Yourst discovered an issue in the kvm subsystem. Local
users with permission to manipulate /dev/kvm can cause a denial
of service (hang) by providing an invalid cr3 value to the
KVM_SET_SREGS call.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed
in version 72+dfsg-5~lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your kvm packages, and rebuild any kernel
modules you have built from a kvm-source package version.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

Stable updates are available ...