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Ubuntu: USN-4725-1 (CVE-2021-20181): QEMU vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4725-1 (CVE-2021-20181): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/08/2021
Created
02/11/2021
Added
02/09/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A race condition flaw was found in the 9pfs server implementation of QEMU up to and including 5.2.0. This flaw allows a malicious 9p client to cause a use-after-free error, potentially escalating their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability.

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

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