The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1799-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 11, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : qemu
Vulnerability : several
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0928 CVE-2008-4539 CVE-2008-1945
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the QEMU processor
emulator. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
CVE-2008-0928
Ian Jackson discovered that range checks of file operations on
emulated disk devices were insufficiently enforced.
CVE-2008-1945
It was discovered that an error in the format auto detection of
removable media could lead to the disclosure of files in the
host system.
CVE-2008-4539
A buffer overflow has been found in the emulation of the Cirrus
graphics adaptor.
For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8.2-4etch3.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.1-10lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.1+svn20081101-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu 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 4.0 alias etch
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 67363 9770edb5cd197a444e9daad2f0439823
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1122 b7d65acdf5cdc3332b3a7a5100c4586d
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch3_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3700070 f2ba0f4f44c56f943e7f49a660284b3e
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.8.2-4etch3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3676468 cf0babcf03c61381fea0d7f30a06e44f
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
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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/q/qemu/qemu_0.9.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2392515 937c34632a59e12ba7b55054419bbe7d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.9.1-10lenny1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 80162 f5d593dcea9ec54a148c76a3883fa537
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.9.1-10lenny1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1638 1c8e6db187f4b58e5655f2b06581b56f
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.9.1-10lenny1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 11030660 02d39005c7b486f1d3541875052435d0
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.9.1-10lenny1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 10560190 d037ea7864b2c1d2bffe0738c56b042d
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.9.1-10lenny1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 10193596 40cfcd624e20d717e4ee0ce2655e5463
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qemu/qemu_0.9.1-10lenny1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 15700104 51cb77dee407b1c7ae7e3938a7e9c576
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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