Debian DSA-4072-1: Critical Qemu CVE-2014-3689 Service Disruption
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November 6, 2014
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator
Summary
CVE-2014-3689
The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security reported that
guest provided parameter were insufficiently validated in
rectangle functions in the vmware-vga driver. A privileged guest
user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the
host, potentially escalating their privileges to those of the
qemu host process.
CVE-2014-7815
James Spadaro of Cisco reported insufficiently sanitized
bits_per_pixel from the client in the QEMU VNC display driver. An
attacker having access to the guest's VNC console could use this
flaw to crash the guest.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1+dfsg-7.
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: https://www.d...
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Package: qemu
CVE ID: CVE-2014-3689 CVE-2014-7815
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