-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2010 secur...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Dann Frazier March 10, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : kvm Vulnerability : privilege escalation/denial of service Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2010-0298 CVE-2010-0306 CVE-2010-0309 CVE-2010-0419 Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in kvm, a full virtualization system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2010-0298 & CVE-2010-0306 Gleb Natapov discovered issues in the KVM subsystem where missing permission checks (CPL/IOPL) permit a user in a guest system to denial of service a guest (system crash) or gain escalated privileges with the guest. CVE-2010-0309 Marcelo Tosatti fixed an issue in the PIT emulation code in the KVM subsystem that allows privileged users in a guest domain to cause a denial of service (crash) of the host system. CVE-2010-0419 Paolo Bonzini found a bug in KVM that can be used to bypass proper permission checking while loading segment selectors. This potentially allows privileged guest users to execute privileged instructions on the host system. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 72+dfsg-5~lenny5. For the testing distribution (squeeze), and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be addressed within the linux-2.6 package. We recommend that you upgrade your kvm package. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- 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 - -------------------------------- Debian (stable) - --------------- Stable updates are available for amd64 and i386. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny5.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1341 14718fcd8584519702b567233d31abd6 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3250251 899a66ae2ea94e994e06f637e1afef4a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny5.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 51204 40d0b0ba8df5fbd8cfc0c837b0da4db2 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm-source_72+dfsg-5~lenny5_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 159990 7a50d4ad7242107fa3443fcf6a30197d amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny5_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1110560 df3bcd5f384fc054863dac9947f60ddb i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny5_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1034558 4f74cdb89f87634ef7c44c2a2d488a1a These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-annou...@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLl+JRhuANDBmkLRkRAtr3AJ9uPXlNVrRuGY1QZT2T3vIwtY0MYwCfef5P NcutcP4hDhz3/fvl9zLjOjI= =iNSd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----