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USN-4437-1: libslirp vulnerability

27 July 2020

libslirp could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Releases

Packages

Details

Ziming Zhang and VictorV discovered that libslirp incorrectly handled
replying to certain ICMP echo requests. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause libslirp to crash, resulting in a denial of
service.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-4467-1: qemu-guest-agent, qemu-system-ppc, qemu-system-aarch64, qemu-system-common, qemu-utils, qemu-system-mips, qemu-block-extra, qemu-system-data, qemu-system-x86-xen, qemu-system-gui, qemu-user-binfmt, qemu, qemu-user, qemu-system-s390x, qemu-system-x86, qemu-user-static, qemu-system-sparc, qemu-system-arm, qemu-system-x86-microvm, qemu-kvm, qemu-system-misc, qemu-system