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Debian: DLA-1035-1 Critical: Qemu Heap Overflow, DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Significant qemu security patch made available to tackle various vulnerabilities such as Denial of Service (DoS) threats and memory overflow concerns for Debian environments.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator

Summary

qemu-kvm built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator and the VNC
display driver support is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow
issue. It could occur when Vnc client attempts to update its
display after a vga operation is performed by a guest.

A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash
the Qemu process resulting in DoS OR potentially leverage it to
execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the Qemu
process.

CVE-2017-7718

qemu-kvm built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is
vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur while
copying VGA data via bitblt functions cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_
and/or cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the
Qemu process resulting in DoS.

CVE-2017-7980

qemu-kvm built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is
vulnerable to an out-of-bounds r/w access issues. It could occur

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: qemu
Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u22
CVE ID: CVE-2016-9602 CVE-2016-9603 CVE-2017-7377 CVE-2017-7471

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