| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'qemu' package(s) announced via the DSA-3361-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator.
CVE-2015-5278
Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered an infinite loop issue in the NE2000 NIC emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of service (QEMU process crash).
CVE-2015-5279
Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered a heap buffer overflow flaw in the NE2000 NIC emulation. 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-2015-6815
Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered an infinite loop issue in the e1000 NIC emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of service (QEMU process crash).
CVE-2015-6855
Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered a flaw in the IDE subsystem in QEMU occurring while executing IDE's WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to determine the maximum size of a drive. A privileged guest user 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+deb7u11.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u4.
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.4+dfsg-3 or earlier.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.4+dfsg-3 or earlier.
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.
Affected Software/OS:
'qemu' package(s) on Debian 7, Debian 8.
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
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