Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-257 - Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block device read or write requests, which allows guest host users with root privileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
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Debian Security Advisory 1799-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the QEMU processor emulator.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-016 - Ian Jackson found a security issue in the QEMU block device drivers backend that could allow a guest operating system to issue a block device request and read or write arbitrary memory locations, which could then lead to privilege escalation. It was found that Xen allowed unprivileged DomU domains to overwrite xenstore values which should only be changeable by the privileged Dom0 domain. An attacker able to control a DomU domain could possibly use this flaw to kill arbitrary processes in Dom0 or trick a Dom0 user into accessing the text console of a different domain running on the same host. This update makes certain parts of xenstore tree read-only to unprivileged DomU domains. A vulnerability in the qemu-dm.debug script was found in how it created a temporary file in /tmp. A local attacker in Dom0 could potentially use this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. Since this script is not used in production, it has been removed from this update package. The updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Qemu. Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the cirrus_invalidate_region function in the Cirrus VGA extension in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to attempting to mark non-existent regions as dirty, aka the bitblt heap overflow. Integer signedness error in the NE2000 emulator in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, allows local users to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via certain register values that bypass sanity checks, aka QEMU NE2000 receive integer signedness error. QEMU 0.8.2 allows local users to halt a virtual machine by executing the icebp instruction. QEMU 0.8.2 allows local users to crash a virtual machine via the divisor operand to the aam instruction, as demonstrated by aam 0x0, which triggers a divide-by-zero error. The NE2000 emulator in QEMU 0.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by writing Ethernet frames with a size larger than the MTU to the EN0_TCNT register, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the slirp library, aka NE2000 mtu heap overflow. Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in the net socket listen option, aka QEMU net socket heap overflow. QEMU 0.9.0 allows local users of a Windows XP SP2 guest operating system to overwrite the TranslationBlock (code_gen_buffer) buffer, and probably have unspecified other impacts related to an overflow, via certain Windows executable programs, as demonstrated by qemu-dos.com. Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block device read or write requests, which allows guest host users with root privileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine. Changing removable media in QEMU could trigger a bug similar to CVE-2008-2004, which would allow local guest users to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header of the image to identify a different format. the -usbdevice option. The drive_init function in QEMU 0.9.1 determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest users to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted. The updated packages have been patched to fix these issues.
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