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Debian: DSA-2270-1 Critical: Qemu-KVM Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2011
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Inadequate handling of virtio queue requests in qemu-kvm can lead to Denial of Service vulnerabilities, but patches are available in both stable and development branches.
It was discovered that incorrect sanitising of virtio queue commands in KVM, a solution for full virtualization on x86 hardware, could lead to denial of service of the execution of...
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Summary

It was discovered that incorrect sanitising of virtio queue commands in
KVM, a solution for full virtualization on x86 hardware, could lead to
denial of service of the execution of arbitrary code.


The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.14.1+dfsg-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: qemu-kvm
CVE ID: CVE-2011-2512

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