Critical QEMU Security Advisory - Addressing Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 22.04
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in QEMU. Software Description: - qemu: Machine emulator and virtualizer Details: Markus Frank and Fiona Ebner discovered that QEMU did not properly handle certain memory operations, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An authenticated user could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-6683) Xiao Lei discovered that QEMU did not properly handle certain memory operations when specific features were enabled, which could lead to a stack overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2023-6693) It was discovered that QEMU had an integer underflow vulnerability in the TI command, which would result in a buffer overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-24474)
Update Instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS qemu-system 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-arm 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-mips 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-misc 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-ppc 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-s390x 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-sparc 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 qemu-system-x86-xen 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22 After a standard system update you need to restart all QEMU virtual machines to make all the necessary changes.
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6954-1
CVE-2023-6683, CVE-2023-6693, CVE-2024-24474
Package Information
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.22