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USN-4283-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

18 February 2020

Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.

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Releases

Packages

  • qemu - Machine emulator and virtualizer

Details

Felipe Franciosi, Raphael Norwitz, and Peter Turschmid discovered that QEMU
incorrectly handled iSCSI server responses. A remote attacker in control of
the iSCSI server could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-1711)

It was discovered that the QEMU libslirp component incorrectly handled
memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-7039, CVE-2020-8608)

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Related notices

  • USN-4632-1: slirp
  • USN-7094-1: qemu-system-x86-microvm, qemu-system-s390x, qemu-utils, qemu-system-x86, qemu-common, qemu-system-common, qemu-system-modules-spice, qemu-user-static, qemu-system-arm, qemu-block-extra, qemu-system, qemu-system-misc, qemu-user-binfmt, qemu-system-sparc, qemu-kvm, qemu-system-gui, qemu, qemu-keymaps, qemu-system-modules-opengl, qemu-user, qemu-block-supplemental, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-system-aarch64, qemu-system-xen, qemu-system-x86-xen, qemu-system-mips, qemu-system-data, qemu-system-ppc