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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-17381): QEMU regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-17381): QEMU regression

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/21/2018
Modified
05/03/2019

Description

The Virtio Vring implementation in QEMU allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) by unsetting vring alignment while updating Virtio rings.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-aarch64
  • 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

References

  • USN-3575-1
  • USN-3575-2
  • 102059
  • DSA-4213
  • CVE-2017-17381

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