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xen-qemu: privilege escalation

Package(s):xen-qemu-dm-4.0 CVE #(s):CVE-2012-4411
Created:September 10, 2012 Updated:November 20, 2012
Description: From the Debian advisory:

The qemu monitor was enabled by default, allowing administrators of a guest to access resources of the host, possibly escalate privileges or access resources belonging to another guest.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2543-1 2012-09-08
Fedora FEDORA-2012-13434 2012-09-17
Fedora FEDORA-2012-13443 2012-09-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1486-1 2012-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1487-1 2012-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1503-1 2012-11-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1572-1 2012-11-26
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1573-1 2012-11-26
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