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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-249

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-249
Posted Dec 15, 2014
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-249 - During migration, the values read from migration stream during ram load are not validated. Especially offset in host_from_stream_offset() and also the length of the writes in the callers of the said function. A user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the wire during migration) could use either of these flaws to corrupt QEMU process memory on the host, which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process. Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat discovered that the blit region checks were insufficient in the Cirrus VGA emulator in qemu. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileges to those of the qemu host process.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, code execution
systems | linux, redhat, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2014-7840, CVE-2014-8106
SHA-256 | adf1d3e7d2fd271696062fca8f954a2af9753513a585d7bb64bd9f7fcc5d0f55

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-249

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:249
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : qemu
Date : December 14, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities:

During migration, the values read from migration stream during ram load
are not validated. Especially offset in host_from_stream_offset() and
also the length of the writes in the callers of the said function. A
user able to alter the savevm data (either on the disk or over the
wire during migration) could use either of these flaws to corrupt QEMU
process memory on the (destination) host, which could potentially
result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges
of the QEMU process (CVE-2014-7840).

Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat discovered that the blit region checks were
insufficient in the Cirrus VGA emulator in qemu. A privileged guest
user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host,
potentially escalating their privileges to those of the qemu host
process (CVE-2014-8106).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7840
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8106
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0525.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
2d402807644542a6999844199592ee6a mbs1/x86_64/qemu-1.6.2-1.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
cc805ac5a37e0b2c4944d4457cdf2af0 mbs1/x86_64/qemu-img-1.6.2-1.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
cebb60ade872fc9e6d8ff7aef1aeafcd mbs1/SRPMS/qemu-1.6.2-1.2.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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