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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71093
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2396-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'qemu-kvm' package(s) announced via the DSA-2396-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'qemu-kvm' package(s) announced via the DSA-2396-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Nicolae Mogoreanu discovered a heap overflow in the emulated e1000e network interface card of KVM, a solution for full virtualization on x86 hardware, which could result in denial of service or privilege escalation.

This update also fixes a guest-triggerable memory corruption in VNC handling.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0+dfsg-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'qemu-kvm' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.4

CVSS Vector:
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-0029
47740
http://secunia.com/advisories/47740
47741
http://secunia.com/advisories/47741
47992
http://secunia.com/advisories/47992
48318
http://secunia.com/advisories/48318
50913
http://secunia.com/advisories/50913
51642
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51642
FEDORA-2012-8604
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html
RHSA-2012:0050
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2012-0050.html
RHSA-2012:0370
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0370.html
SUSE-SU-2012:1320
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00002.html
USN-1339-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1339-1
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=log%3Bh=refs/heads/stable-1.0
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772075
openSUSE-SU-2012:0207
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-02/msg00009.html
qemu-processtxdesc-bo(72656)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72656
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