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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3259-1 qemu -- security update

Date Reported:

13 May 2015

Affected Packages:

qemu

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9718, CVE-2015-1779, CVE-2015-2756, CVE-2015-3456.

More information:

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.