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Ubuntu: USN-5307-1 (CVE-2021-4158): QEMU vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5307-1 (CVE-2021-4158): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/24/2022
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the ACPI code of QEMU. A malicious, privileged user within the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition.

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

References

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