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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2282-1 qemu-kvm -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

25 Jul 2011

Affected Packages:

qemu-kvm

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-2212, CVE-2011-2527.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in KVM, a solution for full virtualization on x86 hardware:

• CVE-2011-2212

  Nelson Elhage discovered a buffer overflow in the virtio subsystem, which could lead to denial of service or privilege escalation.

• CVE-2011-2527

  Andrew Griffiths discovered that group privileges were insufficiently dropped when started with -runas option, resulting in privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze6.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.14.1+dfsg-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.