USN-3261-1: QEMU vulnerabilities
USN-3261-1: QEMU vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3261-1 20th April, 2017 qemu vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in QEMU. Software description qemu – Machine emulator and virtualizer Details Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPUdevice. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU tocrash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-10028, CVE-2016-10029) Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 6300esb watchdog. Aprivileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU tocrash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-10155) Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the i.MX Fast EthernetController. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue tocause [ more… ]