Michael S. Tsirkin of Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow flaw in the way qemu processed MAC addresses table update requests from the guest. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to corrupt qemu process memory on the host, which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the qemu process.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze4. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.0+dfsg-8. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.0+dfsg-8. We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.

QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4, SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs. QEMU has two operating modes:

qemu on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2909.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25