Executive Summary

Summary
Title QEMU vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-863-1 First vendor Publication 2009-12-03
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2009-12-03
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 9.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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

Ubuntu 9.10:
qemu-kvm 0.11.0-0ubuntu6.3

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any QEMU guests to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that QEMU did not properly setup the virtio networking features available to its guests. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash QEMU guests which use virtio networking on Linux kernels earlier than 2.6.26.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-863-1

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