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Ubuntu 20.10, 20.04 LTS USN-4725-1 High Severity: QEMU DoS

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple vulnerabilities have been addressed in QEMU that impact various Ubuntu releases. Ensure your systems are updated without delay.
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 20.10: qemu-system 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-arm 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-mips 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-misc 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-ppc 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-s390x 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-sparc 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-x86 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-x86-microvm 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 qemu-system-x86-xen 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: qemu-system 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-arm 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-mips 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-misc 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-ppc 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-s390x 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-sparc 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-x86 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-x86-microvm 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 qemu-system-x86-xen 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: qemu-system 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 qemu-system-arm 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 qemu-system-mips 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 qemu-system-misc 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 qemu-system-ppc 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 qemu-system-s390x 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 qemu-system-sparc 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 qemu-system-x86 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: qemu-system 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 qemu-system-aarch64 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 qemu-system-arm 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 qemu-system-mips 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 qemu-system-misc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 qemu-system-ppc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 qemu-system-s390x 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 qemu-system-sparc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 qemu-system-x86 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49 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-4725-1

CVE-2020-11947, CVE-2020-15859, CVE-2020-27821, CVE-2020-28916,

CVE-2020-29443, CVE-2021-20181

February 08, 2021

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/1:4.2-3ubuntu6.12 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.35 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.49

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