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Debian DSA-2909-1: Critical Qemu Buffer Overflow Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2014
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The Debian security announcement DSA-2909-1 outlines a vulnerability in qemu, which may lead to unauthorized code execution due to a buffer overflow.
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Summary

A privileged guest user could use this flaw to corrupt qemu process
memory on the host, which could potentially result in arbitrary code
execution on the host with the privileges of the qemu process.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze4.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.0+dfsg-8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.0+dfsg-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu 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
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0150

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