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Gentoo: GLSA-201602-01 Normal: QEMU Escalation Threats and Impact

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2016
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Multiple security flaws within QEMU might enable cybercriminals to instigate service interruptions or gain unauthorized access on Gentoo platforms.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service or gain elevated privileges from a guest VM

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo privilege escalation normal severity qemu

Resolution

All QEMU users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/qemu-2.5.0-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1779 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1779 [ 2 ] CVE-2015-3456 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3456 [ 3 ] CVE-2015-5225 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5225 [ 4 ] CVE-2015-5278 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5278 [ 5 ] CVE-2015-5279 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5279 [ 6 ] CVE-2015-5745 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5745 [ 7 ] CVE-2015-6815 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-6815 [ 8 ] CVE-2015-6855 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-6855 [ 9 ] CVE-2015-7295 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-7295 [ 10 ] CVE-2015-7504 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-7504 [ 11 ] CVE-2015-7512 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-7512 [ 12 ] CVE-2015-7549 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-7549 [ 13 ] CVE-2015-8345 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: February 04, 2016
Bugs: #544328, #549404, #557206, #558416, #559656, #560422,
ID: 201602-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo privilege escalation normal severity qemu

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service or gain elevated privileges from a guest VM.

Background

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-emulation/qemu < 2.5.0-r1 >= 2.5.0-r1

Impact

===== A remote attacker might cause a Denial of Service or gain escalated privileges from a guest VM.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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