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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3285-1 qemu-kvm -- security update

Date Reported:

13 Jun 2015

Affected Packages:

qemu-kvm

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 788460.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3209, CVE-2015-4037.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution on x86 hardware.

• CVE-2015-3209

  Matt Tait of Google's Project Zero security team discovered a flaw in the way QEMU's AMD PCnet Ethernet emulation handles multi-TMD packets with a length above 4096 bytes. A privileged guest user in a guest with an AMD PCNet ethernet card enabled can potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process.

• CVE-2015-4037

  Kurt Seifried of Red Hat Product Security discovered that QEMU's user mode networking stack uses predictable temporary file names when the -smb option is used. An unprivileged user can use this flaw to cause a denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.