Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00850.html ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00852.html ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0194.html ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00900.html ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00957.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433560 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34642 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:016 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=debian-security&m=120343592917055&w=2 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00857.html ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00830.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29963 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9706 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29129 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28001 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29136 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35031 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29081 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29172 ↗