Secunia Security Advisory - Debian has issued an update for kvm. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users and malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Debian update for kvm
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37908
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37908/
DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for kvm. This fixes some vulnerabilities,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users and malicious people
to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
For more information:
SA36707
SA36763
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
-- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny --
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/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~lenny4.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 42354 12a3490ebcba2c1e9aa2a86140eaa2e3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny4.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1349 95ea1b5511954549694e198b838e308c
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm-source_72+dfsg-5~lenny4_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 158524 70f46f694afd3169ce16a4c84ee32eb6
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny4_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1105892 22f218058f3cc3f8d40ca9069ff151f9
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvm/kvm_72+dfsg-5~lenny4_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1030580 ffdfcfce508514828bf455183e45f581
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DSA-1962:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00284.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA36707:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36707/
SA36763:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36763/
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