CVE-2008-4539
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CVE-2008-4539
Summary:
Details: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA implementation in (1) KVM before kvm-82 and (2) QEMU on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu might allow local users to gain privileges by using the VNC console for a connection, aka the LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-1320.
References: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.changes.devel/msg/9e0dc008572f2867?dmode=source, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/25073, http://secunia.com/advisories/29129, http://secunia.com/advisories/33350, http://secunia.com/advisories/34642, http://secunia.com/advisories/35031, http://secunia.com/advisories/35062, http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5587, http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448525, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47736, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/qemu/0.9.1+svn20081112-1ubuntu1, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01223.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448525, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890, http://git.kernel.dk/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=65d35a09979e63541afc5bfc595b9f1b1b4ae069, http://www.mail-archive.com/cvs-all%40freebsd.org/msg129730.html, http://www.mail-archive.com/secure-testing-commits%40lists.alioth.debian.org/msg09322.html
