Mageia alert MGASA-2012-0263 (qemu-kvm)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2012-0263: qemu-0.14.0-5.3.mga1 (1/core),
 qemu-1.0-6.2.mga2 (2/core) 
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Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:23:06 +0200
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MGASA-2012-0263
Date: 	September 9th, 2012
Affected releases: 	1, 2


Description:
Updated qemu-kvm packages fix security vulnerability:

A flaw was found in the way QEMU handled VT100 terminal escape sequences
when emulating certain character devices. A guest user with privileges to
write to a character device that is emulated on the host using a virtual
console back-end could use this flaw to crash the qemu-kvm process on the
host or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host (CVE-2012-3515).


Updated Packages:
Mageia 1:
qemu-0.14.0-5.3.mga1
qemu-img-0.14.0-5.3.mga1

Mageia 2:
qemu-1.0-6.2.mga2
qemu-img-1.0-6.2.mga2


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3515
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1234.html
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7367
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-...