Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4213-1 qemu -- security update

Date Reported:
29 May 2018
Affected Packages:
qemu
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 877890, Bug 880832, Bug 880836, Bug 882136, Bug 883399, Bug 883625, Bug 884806, Bug 886532.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-15038, CVE-2017-15119, CVE-2017-15124, CVE-2017-15268, CVE-2017-15289, CVE-2017-16845, CVE-2017-17381, CVE-2017-18043, CVE-2018-5683, CVE-2018-7550.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator.

  • CVE-2017-15038

    Tuomas Tynkkynen discovered an information leak in 9pfs.

  • CVE-2017-15119

    Eric Blake discovered that the NBD server insufficiently restricts large option requests, resulting in denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-15124

    Daniel Berrange discovered that the integrated VNC server insufficiently restricted memory allocation, which could result in denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-15268

    A memory leak in websockets support may result in denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-15289

    Guoxiang Niu discovered an OOB write in the emulated Cirrus graphics adaptor which could result in denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-16845

    Cyrille Chatras discovered an information leak in PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation which could be exploited during instance migration.

  • CVE-2017-17381

    Dengzhan Heyuandong Bijunhua and Liweichao discovered that an implementation error in the virtio vring implementation could result in denial of service.

  • CVE-2017-18043

    Eric Blake discovered an integer overflow in an internally used macro which could result in denial of service.

  • CVE-2018-5683

    Jiang Xin and Lin ZheCheng discovered an OOB memory access in the emulated VGA adaptor which could result in denial of service.

  • CVE-2018-7550

    Cyrille Chatras discovered that an OOB memory write when using multiboot could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

This update also backports a number of mitigations against the Spectre v2 vulnerability affecting modern CPUs (CVE-2017-5715). For additional information please refer to https://www.qemu.org/2018/01/04/spectre/

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.

For the detailed security status of qemu please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/qemu