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Debian 7 Wheezy: DLA-1350-1 Moderate: QEMU Memory Access Risk

debian lts
Calendar Grey April 17, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Enhance qemu-kvm to address CVE-2018-7550 security flaw in Debian LTS that poses risks involving memory access and potential code execution.
The load_multiboot function in hw/i386/multiboot.c in Quick Emulator (aka QEMU) allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via a mh_load_end_addr value ...
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Summary

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


<pre><font face="Courier">Package: qemu-kvm
Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u25
CVE ID: CVE-2018-7550
Debian Bug: 892041

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security advisory software update code execution debian local threat memory access qemu

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