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×Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation
solution:
CVE-2014-9718
It was discovered that the IDE controller emulation is susceptible
to denial of service.
CVE-2015-1779
Daniel P. Berrange discovered a denial of service vulnerability in
the VNC web socket decoder.
CVE-2015-2756
Jan Beulich discovered that unmediated PCI command register could
result in denial of service.
CVE-2015-3456
Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy
disk drive, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary code.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u7 of the qemu source package and in version
1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u7 of the qemu-kvm source package. Only CVE-2015-3456
affects oldstable.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:2.1+dfsg-12.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your q...
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