QEMU regression
Summary
USN-8412-1 fixed vulnerabilities QEMU. On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the fix for CVE-2024-4467 was incomplete and prevented the creation of boot volumes from qcow2 images. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Felipe Franciosi, Raphael Norwitz, and Peter Turschmid discovered that the iSCSI block driver in QEMU incorrectly handled certain responses from an iSCSI server. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-1711) It was discovered that the iSCSI block driver in QEMU incorrectly handled certain memory operations, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information from the host. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-11947) Ziming Zhang discovered that the SM501 display driver in QEMU contained an integer overflow. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-12829) Gaoning Pan and Xingwei Li discovered that the USB xHCI controller implementation in QEMU contained an infinite loop. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to hang, resulting in a denial of servi Affected Ubuntu releases: 20.04.
- Ubuntu 20.04
Official advisory · low-confidence parse· fetched 4 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · low-confidence parse· fetched 4 hours ago·verify at source
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