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Gentoo Linux: GLSA-201706-03 Normal: QEMU Multiple Risks Leading to DoS

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2017
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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 202109-02 highlights vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL project that may cause data exposure or system compromise. Immediate patching is advised.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service or gain elevated privileges from a guest VM

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 Gentoo privilege escalation DoS normal severity QEMU

Resolution

All QEMU users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/qemu-2.9.0-r2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-9603 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9603 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-7377 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7377 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-7471 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7471 [ 4 ] CVE-2017-7493 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7493 [ 5 ] CVE-2017-7718 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7718 [ 6 ] CVE-2017-7980 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7980 [ 7 ] CVE-2017-8086 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8086 [ 8 ] CVE-2017-8112 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8112 [ 9 ] CVE-2017-8309 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8309 [ 10 ] CVE-2017-8379 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8379 [ 11 ] CVE-2017-8380 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8380 [ 12 ] CVE-2017-9060 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-9060 [ 13 ] CVE-2017-9310 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
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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: Normal
Title: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: June 06, 2017
Bugs: #614744, #615874, #616460, #616462, #616482, #616484,
ID: 201706-03

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo privilege escalation DoS normal severity QEMU

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in QEMU, the worst of which may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service or gain elevated privileges from a guest VM.

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 < 2.9.0-r2 >= 2.9.0-r2

Impact

===== A remote attacker might cause a Denial of Service or gain escalated privileges from a guest VM.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.