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kvm: heap overflow

Package(s):kvm CVE #(s):CVE-2008-4539
Created:November 12, 2008 Updated:May 13, 2009
Description:

This is evidently a reoccurrence of CVE-2007-1320, which has the following description:

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the cirrus_invalidate_region function in the Cirrus VGA extension in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to "attempting to mark non-existent regions as dirty," aka the "bitblt" heap overflow.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-776-2 USN-776-1 fixed 2009-05-13
Ubuntu USN-776-1 kvm 2009-05-12
Debian DSA-1799-1 qemu 2009-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2008-11727 kvm 2008-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2008-11705 kvm 2008-12-24
Fedora FEDORA-2008-10000 kvm 2008-11-22
Fedora FEDORA-2008-9556 kvm 2008-11-12

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