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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703066
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3066-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'qemu' package(s) announced via the DSA-3066-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'qemu' package(s) announced via the DSA-3066-1 advisory.

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

CVE-2014-3689

The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security reported that guest provided parameter were insufficiently validated in rectangle functions in the vmware-vga driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileges to those of the qemu host process.

CVE-2014-7815

James Spadaro of Cisco reported insufficiently sanitized bits_per_pixel from the client in the QEMU VNC display driver. An attacker having access to the guest's VNC console could use this flaw to crash the guest.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1+dfsg-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'qemu' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-3689
114397
http://www.osvdb.org/114397
60923
http://secunia.com/advisories/60923
62143
http://secunia.com/advisories/62143
62144
http://secunia.com/advisories/62144
DSA-3066
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3066
DSA-3067
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3067
USN-2409-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
[Qemu-devel] 20141015 [PATCH v2 0/5] vmware-vga: fix CVE-2014-3689
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg261580.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-7815
61484
http://secunia.com/advisories/61484
RHSA-2015:0349
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0349.html
RHSA-2015:0624
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0624.html
SUSE-SU-2015:1782
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00019.html
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e6908bfe8e07f2b452e78e677da1b45b1c0f6829
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200892
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157641
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