glsa-201210-04.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201210-04">
  <title>qemu-kvm: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in qemu-kvm, allowing attackers
    to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ebuild</product>
  <announced>2012-10-18</announced>
  <revised count="1">2012-10-18</revised>
  <bug>364889</bug>
  <bug>365259</bug>
  <bug>372411</bug>
  <bug>373997</bug>
  <bug>400595</bug>
  <bug>430456</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/qemu-kvm" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.1-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.1-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>qemu-kvm provides QEMU and Kernel-based Virtual Machine userland tools.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in qemu-kvm. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>These vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of
      Service condition on the host server or qemu process, might allow for
      arbitrary code execution or a symlink attack when qemu-kvm is in snapshot
      mode.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All qemu-kvm users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/qemu-kvm-1.1.1-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1750">CVE-2011-1750</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1751">CVE-2011-1751</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2212">CVE-2011-2212</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2512">CVE-2011-2512</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0029">CVE-2012-0029</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2652">CVE-2012-2652</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:53Z">craig</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2012-10-18T20:48:30Z">craig</metadata>
</glsa>