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Ubuntu: USN-3289-1 (CVE-2017-7718): QEMU vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3289-1 (CVE-2017-7718): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/17/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to copying VGA data via the cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_ functions.

Solution(s)

  • 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-3289-1
  • 97957
  • RHSA-2017:0980
  • RHSA-2017:0981
  • RHSA-2017:0982
  • RHSA-2017:0983
  • RHSA-2017:0984
  • RHSA-2017:0988
  • RHSA-2017:1205
  • RHSA-2017:1206
  • RHSA-2017:1430
  • RHSA-2017:1431
  • RHSA-2017:1441
  • GLSA-201706-03
  • CVE-2017-7718
  • DLA-939-1
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