National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6227

Overview

QEMU 0.9.0 allows local users of a Windows XP SP2 guest operating system to overwrite the TranslationBlock (code_gen_buffer) buffer, and probably have unspecified other impacts related to an "overflow," via certain Windows executable programs, as demonstrated by qemu-dos.com.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (12/11/2007)

Xen and KVM, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 by default use only peripheral device emulation of QEMU and are therefore not vulnerable to this issue.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: BID

Name: 26666

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26666

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071130 QEMU code_gen_buffer overflow POC

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/484429/100/0/threaded

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:162

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29129

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29129

External Source: XF

Name: qemu-translationblock-dos(38806)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38806