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<glsa id="200711-21">
  <title>Bochs: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Bochs, possibly allowing
    for the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">bochs</product>
  <announced>November 17, 2007</announced>
  <revised>November 17, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>188148</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/bochs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Bochs is a IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a heap-based
    overflow vulnerability in the NE2000 driver (CVE-2007-2893). He also
    discovered a divide-by-zero error in the emulated floppy disk
    controller (CVE-2007-2894).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A local attacker in the guest operating system could exploit these
    issues to execute code outside of the virtual machine, or cause Bochs
    to crash.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Bochs users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-emulation/bochs-2.3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2893">CVE-2007-2893</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2894">CVE-2007-2894</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:10:20 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:11:15 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:22:24 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>