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Ubuntu 22.04: USN-6954-1 Critical: QEMU Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple vulnerabilities addressed in QEMU for Ubuntu 22.04, notably including denial of service and data exposure mitigations.
Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in QEMU. Software Description: - qemu: Machine emulator and virtualizer Details: Markus Frank and Fiona Ebner discovered that QEMU did not properly handle certain memory operations, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An authenticated user could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-6683) Xiao Lei discovered that QEMU did not properly handle certain memory operations when specific features were enabled, which could lead to a stack overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2023-6693) It was discovered that QEMU had an integer underflow vulnerability in the TI command, which would result in a buffer overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-24474)

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS qemu-system 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-arm 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-mips 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-misc 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-ppc 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-s390x 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-sparc 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-x86-xen 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 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-6954-1

CVE-2023-6683, CVE-2023-6693, CVE-2024-24474

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6954-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22

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