Improper Privilege Management Affecting qemu package, versions <2.1+dfsg-6
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-QEMU-428241
- published 14 Nov 2014
- disclosed 14 Nov 2014
Introduced: 14 Nov 2014
CVE-2014-3689 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
qemu
to version 2.1+dfsg-6 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) in QEMU allows local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via unspecified parameters related to rectangle handling.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3689
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3066
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3067
- https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg261580.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60923
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62143
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62144
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-3689
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
- http://www.osvdb.org/114397
- https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg261580.html