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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-539-1 qemu-kvm -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

01 Jul 2016

Affected Packages:

qemu-kvm

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-3710, CVE-2016-3712.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution for Linux hosts on x86 hardware with x86 guests.

• CVE-2016-3710

  Wei Xiao and Qinghao Tang of 360.cn Inc discovered an out-of-bounds read and write flaw in the QEMU VGA module. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process.

• CVE-2016-3712

  Zuozhi Fzz of Alibaba Inc discovered potential integer overflow or out-of-bounds read access issues in the QEMU VGA module. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of service (QEMU process crash).

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u13.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.

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