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Debian: DSA-4567-2 Urgent: OpenSSL Security Flaw and Data Leaks

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2015
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Enhance your qemu installations in Debian to tackle severe security flaws and weaknesses that impact system reliability.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation solution: CVE-2014-9718

Summary

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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Package: qemu
CVE ID: CVE-2014-9718 CVE-2015-1779 CVE-2015-2756 CVE-2015-3456

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