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Ubuntu: USN-7094-1 (CVE-2024-4693): QEMU vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-7094-1 (CVE-2024-4693): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/14/2024
Created
11/12/2024
Added
11/11/2024
Modified
11/11/2024

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU Virtio PCI Bindings (hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c). An improper release and use of the irqfd for vector 0 during the boot process leads to a guest triggerable crash via vhost_net_stop(). This flaw allows a malicious guest to crash the QEMU process on the host.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-arm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-mips
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-misc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-ppc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-s390x
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-sparc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86-xen
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-xen

References

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