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Debian: DSA-3087-1 Critical: QEMU Privilege Escalation Alert

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Calendar Grey December 4, 2014
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Caution Notice DSA-5091-2 outlines a vulnerability in libvirt that poses a risk of elevated privileges on Debian platforms. It is recommended to perform an upgrade.
Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat discovered that the blit region checks were insufficient in the Cirrus VGA emulator in qemu, a fast processor emulator
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u6.

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.debian.org/security/



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Package: qemu
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8106

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