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Debian: DSA 1284-1 Critical: QEMU Execution And DoS Security Issues

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2007
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA 1284-2 addresses significant vulnerabilities in QEMU that could result in arbitrary code execution and service disruptions.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the QEMU processor emulator, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service

Summary


CVE-2007-1321
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the NE2000 network driver and the socket
code perform insufficient input validation, which might allow the
execution of arbitrary code through a heap overflow.

CVE-2007-1322
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the "icebp" instruction can be abused to
terminate the emulation, resulting in denial of service.

CVE-2007-1323
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the NE2000 network driver and the socket
code perform insufficient input validation, which might allow the
execution of arbitrary code through a heap overflow.

CVE-2007-1366
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the "aam" instruction can be abused to
crash qemu through a division by zero, resulting in denial of
service.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.6.1+20050407-1sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed
in version 0.8.2-4etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these prob...

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