USN-1165-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• qemu-kvm - Machine emulator and virtualizer

Details

Nelson Elhage discoverd that QEMU did not properly validate certain
virtqueue requests from the guest. An attacker could exploit this to cause
a denial of service of the guest or possibly execute code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-2212)

Stefan Hajnoczi discovered that QEMU did not properly perform integer
comparisons when performing virtqueue input validation. An attacker could
exploit this to cause a denial of service of the guest or possibly execute
code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-2512)

When using QEMU with libvirt or virtualization management software based on
libvirt such as Eucalyptus and OpenStack, QEMU guests are individually
isolated by an AppArmor profile by default in Ubuntu.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04

• qemu-kvm - 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4.3

Ubuntu 10.10

• qemu-kvm - 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.8
• qemu-kvm-extras - 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.8
• qemu-kvm-extras-static - 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.8

Ubuntu 10.04

• qemu-kvm - 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.12
• qemu-kvm-extras - 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.12
• qemu-kvm-extras-static - 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.12

After a standard system update you need to restart running virtual machines
to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2011-2212
• CVE-2011-2512