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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3920-1 (qemu - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

6 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in qemu, a fast processor emulator: CVE-2017-9310 Denial of service via infinite loop in e1000e NIC emulation. CVE-2017-9330 Denial of service via infinite loop in USB OHCI emulation. CVE-2017-9373 Denial of service via memory leak in IDE AHCI emulation. CVE-2017-9374 Denial of service via memory leak in USB EHCI emulation. CVE-2017-9375 Denial of service via memory leak in USB XHCI emulation. CVE-2017-9524 Denial of service in qemu-nbd server. CVE-2017-10664 Denial of service in qemu-nbd server. CVE-2017-10911 Information leak in Xen blkif response handling.

Affected Software

Affected Software

qemu on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), a separate DSA will be issued. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.