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Posted on 13 May 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3259-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 13, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : qemu
CVE ID : CVE-2014-9718 CVE-2015-1779 CVE-2015-2756 CVE-2015-3456
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation
solution:
CVE-2014-9718
It was discovered that the IDE controller emulation is susceptible
to denial of service.
CVE-2015-1779
Daniel P. Berrange discovered a denial of service vulnerability in
the VNC web socket decoder.
CVE-2015-2756
Jan Beulich discovered that unmediated PCI command register could
result in denial of service.
CVE-2015-3456
Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy
disk drive, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary code.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u7 of the qemu source package and in version
1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u7 of the qemu-kvm source package. Only CVE-2015-3456
affects oldstable.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:2.1+dfsg-12.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
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
