qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

13 November 2014

qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.

Software Description

• qemu - Machine emulator and virtualizer
• qemu-kvm - Machine emulator and virtualizer

Details

Laszlo Ersek discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory in the vga device. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary host memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2014-3615)

Xavier Mehrenberger and Stephane Duverger discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain udp packets when using guest networking. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3640)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled parameter validation in the vmware_vga device. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to write into memory of the host, leading to privilege escalation. (CVE-2014-3689)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI controller live migration. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-5263)

Michael S. Tsirkin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory in the ACPI PCI hotplug interface. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to access memory of the host, leading to information disclosure or privilege escalation. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-5388)

James Spadaro discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain VNC bytes_per_pixel values. An attacker having access to a VNC console could possibly use this issue to cause a guest to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-7815)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10

qemu-system - 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.1

qemu-system-aarch64 - 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.1

qemu-system-arm - 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.1

qemu-system-mips - 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.1

qemu-system-misc - 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.1

qemu-system-ppc - 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.1

qemu-system-sparc - 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.1

qemu-system-x86 - 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu6.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

qemu-system - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

qemu-system-aarch64 - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

qemu-system-arm - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

qemu-system-mips - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

qemu-system-misc - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

qemu-system-ppc - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

qemu-system-sparc - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

qemu-system-x86 - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

qemu-kvm - 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.19

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

qemu-kvm - 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.25

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-3615
• CVE-2014-3640
• CVE-2014-3689
• CVE-2014-5263
• CVE-2014-5388
• CVE-2014-7815