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Posted on 04 December 2014
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3087-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
December 04, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : qemu
CVE ID : CVE-2014-8106
Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat discovered that the blit region checks were
insufficient in the Cirrus VGA emulator in qemu, a fast processor
emulator. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write into qemu
address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileges to
those of the qemu host process.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u6.
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
