USN-3268-1: QEMU vulnerabilities
USN-3268-1: QEMU vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3268-1 25th April, 2017 qemu vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 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. (CVE-2016-10028) It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the JAZZ RC4030 device. Aprivileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU tocrash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8667) Jann Horn discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directorysharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue toaccess files on the host file system outside of the shared directory andpossibly escalate their privileges. In the [ more… ]