USN-3414-1: QEMU vulnerabilities
USN-3414-1: QEMU vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3414-1 13th September, 2017 qemu vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in QEMU. Software description 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 theguest. (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 QEMUto consume resources or crash, resulting in a denial of service.(CVE-2017-8112) It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 HostBus Adapter emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest coulduse this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, orpossibly to obtain sensitive [ more… ]