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qemu-kvm: privilege escalation

Package(s):qemu-kvm CVE #(s):CVE-2011-2527
Created:July 25, 2011 Updated:August 20, 2012
Description: From the Debian advisory:

Andrew Griffiths discovered that group privileges were insufficiently dropped when started with -runas option, resulting in privilege escalation.

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1531-03 2011-12-06
Ubuntu USN-1177-1 2011-07-27
Debian DSA-2282-1 2011-07-25
Scientific Linux SL-qemu-20111206 2011-12-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0207-1 2012-02-09
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8604 2012-06-07
Mageia MGASA-2012-0222 2012-08-18
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