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Ubuntu 20.04 18.04 QEMU Medium DoS Vulnerability Backslide USN-8412-2

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2026
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu update USN-8412-2 resolves QEMU regression issues affecting multiple versions. Ensure no service disruption occurs.
USN-8412-1 introduced a regression in QEMU

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary: USN-8412-1 introduced a regression in QEMU Software Description: - qemu: Machine emulator and virtualizer Details: USN-8412-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. On both Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the fix for CVE-2024-7409 was incomplete and resulted in a regression that could cause qemu-nbd to crash when a client connected. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Felipe Franciosi, Raphael Norwitz, and Peter Turschmid discovered that the iSCSI block driver in QEMU incorrectly handled certain responses from an iSCSI server. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-1711) It was discovered that the iSCSI block driver in QEMU incorrectly handled ...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS qemu-block-extra 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.30+esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro qemu-utils 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.30+esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 18.04 LTS qemu-block-extra 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.42+esm6 Available with Ubuntu Pro qemu-utils 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.42+esm6 Available with Ubuntu Pro 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-8412-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8412-1

CVE-2024-7409

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8412-2

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