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Gentoo: GLSA-201704-01 High: QEMU Arbitrary Code Execution Risks

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2017
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Advisory GLSA 202108-02 highlights severe vulnerabilities in QEMU that pose significant risks to system stability and security.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of which could the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service condition

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Gentoo high severity arbitrary code execution Denial of Service QEMU

Resolution

All QEMU users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/qemu-2.8.0-r9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-9602 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9602 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-2620 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2620 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-2630 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2630 [ 4 ] CVE-2017-5973 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5973 [ 5 ] CVE-2017-5987 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5987 [ 6 ] CVE-2017-6058 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6058 [ 7 ] CVE-2017-6505 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6505

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: April 10, 2017
Bugs: #606088, #609206, #609334, #609396, #609398, #609638, #612220
ID: 201704-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Gentoo high severity arbitrary code execution Denial of Service QEMU

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of which could the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-emulation/qemu < 2.8.0-r9 >= 2.8.0-r9

Impact

===== Remote server can cause a crash in the client causing execution of arbitrary code, and a Denial of Service within the QEMU process. Remote or Local users within a guest QEMU environment can cause a Denial of Service condition of the QEMU guest process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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