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Ubuntu: USN-5489-1 (CVE-2022-26354): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 16, 2022
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the vhost-vsock device of QEMU. In case of error, an invalid element was not detached from the virtqueue before freeing its memory, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results. Affected QEMU versions <= 6.2.0.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-systemubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-armubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-mipsubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-miscubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-ppcubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-s390xubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-sparcubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86-microvmubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86-xen
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