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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3573-1 qemu -- security update

Date Reported:

09 May 2016

Affected Packages:

qemu

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 823830.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-3710, CVE-2016-3712.

More information:

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

• CVE-2016-3710

  Wei Xiao and Qinghao Tang of 360.cn Inc discovered an out-of-bounds read and write flaw in the QEMU VGA module. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process.

• CVE-2016-3712

  Zuozhi Fzz of Alibaba Inc discovered potential integer overflow or out-of-bounds read access issues in the QEMU VGA module. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of service (QEMU process crash).

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.