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Ubuntu: USN-4725-1 (CVE-2020-15859): QEMU vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4725-1 (CVE-2020-15859): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/21/2020
Created
02/11/2021
Added
02/09/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

QEMU 4.2.0 has a use-after-free in hw/net/e1000e_core.c because a guest OS user can trigger an e1000e packet with the data's address set to the e1000e's MMIO address.

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
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86-microvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86-xen

References

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