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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2009.1393
New kvm packages fix several vulnerabilities
14 October 2009
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: kvm
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 5
Impact/Access: Reduced Security -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Denial of Service -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2009-3290 CVE-2008-5714
Reference: ESB-2009.1354
ESB-2009.0056
Original Bulletin:
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1907
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1907-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano
October 13, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : kvm
Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities
Problem type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
Debian bugs : 509997 548975
CVE Ids : CVE-2008-5714 CVE-2009-3290
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in kvm, a full virtualization system.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
CVE-2008-5714
Chris Webb discovered an off-by-one bug limiting KVM's VNC passwords to 7
characters. This flaw might make it easier for remote attackers to guess the VNC
password, which is limited to seven characters where eight was intended.
CVE-2009-3290
It was discovered that the kvm_emulate_hypercall function in KVM does not
prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users
to cause a denial of service (guest kernel crash) and read or write guest kernel
memory.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version
72+dfsg-5~lenny3.
The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain kvm.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version
85+dfsg-4.1
We recommend that you upgrade your kvm packages.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
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Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1349 da207d5f42ab45ed3956be5fcb6ad685
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 41138 f28b640e60392636399873e99b6cc5e3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3250251 899a66ae2ea94e994e06f637e1afef4a
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm-source_72+dfsg-5~lenny3_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 158242 8cee5a68dadbbceecdac6330b69fa59f
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny3_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1099546 5009415dc4927800b33249ca31d8a651
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1030530 313f1a0d91889bf167c4e1aaf57a027d
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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