Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2543-1 xen-qemu-dm-4.0 -- multiple vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 08 Sep 2012
- Affected Packages:
- xen-qemu-dm-4.0
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3515, CVE-2012-4411.
- More information:
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in xen-qemu-dm-4.0, the Xen QEMU Device Model virtual machine hardware emulator. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2012-3515:
The device model for HVM domains does not properly handle VT100 escape sequences when emulating certain devices with a virtual console backend. An attacker within a guest with access to the vulnerable virtual console could overwrite memory of the device model and escalate privileges to that of the device model process.
- CVE-2012-4411:
The QEMU monitor was enabled by default, allowing administrators of a guest to access resources of the host, possibly escalate privileges or access resources belonging to another guest.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.1-2+squeeze2.
The testing distribution (wheezy), and the unstable distribution (sid), no longer contain this package.
We recommend that you upgrade your xen-qemu-dm-4.0 packages.
- CVE-2012-3515: