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Debian: DSA-3088-1 Critical: Qemu-KVM Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey December 4, 2014
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-3089-1 pertains to a vulnerability found in the samba package for the stable branch.
Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat discovered that the blit region checks were insufficient in the Cirrus VGA emulator in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution on x86 hardware
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Summary

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

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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: qemu-kvm
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8106

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