USN-3414-1: QEMU vulnerabilities
13 September 2017
Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.
Releases
Packages
- qemu - Machine emulator and virtualizer
Details
Leo Gaspard discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS access control.
A guest attacker could use this issue to elevate privileges inside the
guest. (CVE-2017-7493)
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWare PVSCSI emulation.
A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU
to consume resources or crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-8112)
It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host
Bus Adapter emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could
use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly to obtain sensitive host memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu
16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-8380)
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An
attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume
resources and crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-9060)
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the e1000e device. A
privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to
hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
17.04. (CVE-2017-9310)
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI emulation
support. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9330)
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled IDE AHCI emulation
support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to
cause QEMU to consume resources and crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2017-9373)
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation
support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to
cause QEMU to consume resources and crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2017-9374)
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI emulation
support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to
cause QEMU to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9375)
Zhangyanyu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2
Host Bus Adapter emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest
could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2017-9503)
It was discovered that the QEMU qemu-nbd server incorrectly handled
initialization. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9524)
It was discovered that the QEMU qemu-nbd server incorrectly handled
signals. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10664)
Li Qiang discovered that the QEMU USB redirector incorrectly handled
logging debug messages. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue
to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10806)
Anthony Perard discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Xen block-interface
responses. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU
to leak contents of host memory. (CVE-2017-10911)
Reno Robert discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain DHCP options
strings. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-11434)
Ryan Salsamendi discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled empty CDROM device
drives. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to
cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-12809)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 17.04
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qemu-system
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1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
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qemu-system-aarch64
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1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
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qemu-system-arm
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1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
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qemu-system-mips
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1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
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qemu-system-misc
-
1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
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qemu-system-ppc
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1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
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qemu-system-s390x
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1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
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qemu-system-sparc
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1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
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qemu-system-x86
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1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu 16.04
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qemu-system
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1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
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qemu-system-aarch64
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1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
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qemu-system-arm
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1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
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qemu-system-mips
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1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
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qemu-system-misc
-
1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
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qemu-system-ppc
-
1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
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qemu-system-s390x
-
1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
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qemu-system-sparc
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1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
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qemu-system-x86
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1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15
Ubuntu 14.04
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qemu-system
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2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
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qemu-system-aarch64
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2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
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qemu-system-arm
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2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
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qemu-system-mips
-
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
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qemu-system-misc
-
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
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qemu-system-ppc
-
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
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qemu-system-sparc
-
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
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qemu-system-x86
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2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.35
After a standard system update you need to restart all QEMU virtual
machines to make all the necessary changes.
Related notices
- USN-3468-2: linux-hwe, linux-image-4.10.0-38-generic, linux-image-4.10.0-38-lowlatency, linux-image-4.10.0-38-generic-lpae, linux-image-extra-4.10.0-38-generic
- USN-3468-3: linux-image-4.10.0-1008-gcp, linux-image-extra-4.10.0-1008-gcp, linux-gcp
- USN-3469-1: linux-image-4.4.0-1009-kvm, linux-image-4.4.0-98-powerpc-smp, linux-image-4.4.0-1039-aws, linux-aws, linux-image-4.4.0-98-lowlatency, linux-kvm, linux-image-4.4.0-98-generic-lpae, linux-image-4.4.0-98-powerpc-e500mc, linux-image-extra-4.4.0-98-generic, linux-image-4.4.0-1033-gke, linux-image-4.4.0-98-powerpc64-emb, linux-raspi2, linux-image-extra-4.4.0-1033-gke, linux-image-4.4.0-98-generic, linux, linux-image-4.4.0-98-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-4.4.0-1076-raspi2, linux-gke, linux-snapdragon, linux-image-4.4.0-1078-snapdragon
- USN-3469-2: linux-image-4.4.0-98-generic-lpae, linux-image-4.4.0-98-generic, linux-image-4.4.0-98-powerpc-smp, linux-image-4.4.0-98-powerpc-e500mc, linux-image-4.4.0-98-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-extra-4.4.0-98-generic, linux-image-4.4.0-98-powerpc64-emb, linux-lts-xenial, linux-image-4.4.0-98-lowlatency
- USN-3470-2: linux-image-generic-lpae-lts-trusty, linux-image-3.13.0-135-generic-lpae, linux-image-generic-lts-trusty, linux-lts-trusty, linux-image-3.13.0-135-generic
- USN-3470-1: linux-image-3.13.0-135-powerpc64-emb, linux, linux-image-extra-3.13.0-135-generic, linux-image-3.13.0-135-powerpc-e500, linux-image-3.13.0-135-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.13.0-135-powerpc-e500mc, linux-image-3.13.0-135-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.13.0-135-lowlatency, linux-image-3.13.0-135-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.13.0-135-generic
- USN-3468-1: linux, linux-image-raspi2, linux-image-4.10.0-38-generic, linux-image-generic, linux-image-4.10.0-38-lowlatency, linux-image-4.10.0-1020-raspi2, linux-image-4.10.0-38-generic-lpae, linux-image-lowlatency, linux-raspi2, linux-image-generic-lpae