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Ubuntu 16.04/14.04/12.04 LTS: USN-3047-1 Critical QEMU DoS Fix

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Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3047-1
August 04, 2016

qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities
=========================================================================
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.

Software Description:
- qemu: Machine emulator and virtualizer
- qemu-kvm: Machine emulator and virtualizer

Details:

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled 53C9X Fast SCSI
controller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU
is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor
profile. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-4439, CVE-2016-4441, CVE-2016-5238, CVE-2016-5338, CVE-2016-6351)

Li Qiang and Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the
VMWare VGA module. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
to obtain sensitive host memory. (CVE-2016-4453, CVE-2016-4454)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual
SCSI bus emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could
use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-4952)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host
Bus Adapter emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could
use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly to obtain sensitive host memory. This issue only applied to Ubuntu
14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5105, CVE-2016-5106,
CVE-2016-5107, CVE-2016-5337)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain iSCSI asynchronous
I/O ioctl calls. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause
QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used
with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile.
This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-5126)

Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio module. A
privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-5403)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  qemu-system                     1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  qemu-system-aarch64             1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  qemu-system-arm                 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  qemu-system-mips                1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  qemu-system-misc                1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  qemu-system-ppc                 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  qemu-system-s390x               1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  qemu-system-sparc               1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  qemu-system-x86                 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  qemu-system                     2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
  qemu-system-aarch64             2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
  qemu-system-arm                 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
  qemu-system-mips                2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
  qemu-system-misc                2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
  qemu-system-ppc                 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
  qemu-system-sparc               2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
  qemu-system-x86                 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  qemu-kvm                        1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.29

After a standard system update you need to restart all QEMU virtual
machines to make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3047-1
  CVE-2016-4439, CVE-2016-4441, CVE-2016-4453, CVE-2016-4454,
  CVE-2016-4952, CVE-2016-5105, CVE-2016-5106, CVE-2016-5107,
  CVE-2016-5126, CVE-2016-5238, CVE-2016-5337, CVE-2016-5338,
  CVE-2016-5403, CVE-2016-6351

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.29


Ubuntu 16.04/14.04/12.04 LTS: USN-3047-1 Critical QEMU DoS Fix

ubuntu
Calendar Grey August 4, 2016
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Imperative security patches for QEMU tackle multiple weaknesses in Ubuntu. Upgrade advised to avert possible threats.
Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: qemu-system 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 qemu-system-aarch64 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 qemu-system-arm 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 qemu-system-mips 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 qemu-system-misc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 qemu-system-ppc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 qemu-system-s390x 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 qemu-system-sparc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 qemu-system-x86 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: qemu-system 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 qemu-system-aarch64 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 qemu-system-arm 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 qemu-system-mips 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 qemu-system-misc 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 qemu-system-ppc 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 qemu-system-sparc 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 qemu-system-x86 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.29 After a standard system update you need to restart all QEMU virtual machines to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3047-1

CVE-2016-4439, CVE-2016-4441, CVE-2016-4453, CVE-2016-4454,

CVE-2016-4952, CVE-2016-5105, CVE-2016-5106, CVE-2016-5107,

CVE-2016-5126, CVE-2016-5238, CVE-2016-5337, CVE-2016-5338,

CVE-2016-5403, CVE-2016-6351

Severity
critical
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Critical

August 04, 2016

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.29

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