Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3348-1 qemu -- security update

Date Reported:
02 Sep 2015
Affected Packages:
qemu
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 793811, Bug 794610, Bug 795087, Bug 795461, Bug 796465.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3214, CVE-2015-5154, CVE-2015-5165, CVE-2015-5225, CVE-2015-5745.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator.

  • CVE-2015-3214

    Matt Tait of Google's Project Zero security team discovered a flaw in the QEMU i8254 PIT emulation. A privileged guest user in a guest with QEMU PIT emulation enabled could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process.

  • CVE-2015-5154

    Kevin Wolf of Red Hat discovered a heap buffer overflow flaw in the IDE subsystem in QEMU while processing certain ATAPI commands. A privileged guest user in a guest with the CDROM drive enabled could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process.

  • CVE-2015-5165

    Donghai Zhu discovered that the QEMU model of the RTL8139 network card did not sufficiently validate inputs in the C+ mode offload emulation, allowing a malicious guest to read uninitialized memory from the QEMU process's heap.

  • CVE-2015-5225

    Mr Qinghao Tang from QIHU 360 Inc. and Mr Zuozhi from Alibaba Inc discovered a buffer overflow flaw in the VNC display driver leading to heap memory corruption. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of service (QEMU process crash), or potentially to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process.

  • CVE-2015-5745

    A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the way QEMU handles the virtio-serial device. A malicious guest could use this flaw to mount a denial of service (QEMU process crash).

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u9. The oldstable distribution is only affected by CVE-2015-5165 and CVE-2015-5745.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.4+dfsg-1a.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.