Secunia Security Advisory - Debian has issued an update for xen-qemu-dm-4.0. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to potentially gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Debian update for xen-qemu-dm-4.0
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47844
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DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for xen-qemu-dm-4.0. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a
guest virtual machine to potentially gain escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA47859
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the apt-get package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DSA-2404-1:
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2404
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