USN-863-1: QEMU vulnerability

3 December 2009

QEMU vulnerability

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Details

It was discovered that QEMU did not properly setup the virtio networking
features available to its guests. A remote attacker could exploit this to
crash QEMU guests which use virtio networking on Linux kernels earlier
than 2.6.26.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any QEMU guests to
effect the necessary changes.

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