[Secure-testing-team] Bug#611134: CVE-2011-0011 qemu-kvm: Setting VNC password to empty string silently disables all authentication

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Package: kvm
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Please see the following entry in the Red Hat bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-0011 

The impact is not entirely obvious to me? Do I understand it
correctly that a malicious application accessing a KVM
instance could lock out other apps to this virtual machine?

Do you think this needs to be fixed for Squeeze or in a 
point update?

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash