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SUSE: 2012:1203-2 Important: QEMU VT100 Emulation Security Issue

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2012
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Important SUSE patch for qemu resolves host vulnerability arising from vt100 emulation defect, guarantees operational reliability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The qemu vt100 emulation was affected by a problem where specific vt100 sequences could have been used by guest users to affect the host. (CVE-2012-3515 aka XSA-17). This has been fixed. Security Issue reference: * CVE-2012-3515 Package List: - SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 x86_64): qemu-0.8.2-37.14.1

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security advisory critical important SUSE host security emulation issue qemu

References

#777084

Cross- CVE-2012-3515

Affected Products:

SLE SDK 10 SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3515.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1203-2
Rating: important

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security advisory critical important SUSE host security emulation issue qemu

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