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Unscored USN-2409-1 6 CVEs

qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

Published Nov 13, 2014 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

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)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS qemu 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7

Vulnerabilities 6

  • Unscored —

    The VGA emulator in QEMU allows local guest users to read host memory by setting the display to a high resolution.

  • Unscored —

    The sosendto function in slirp/udp.c in QEMU before 2.1.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer…

  • Unscored —

    The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) in QEMU allows local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and …

  • Unscored —

    vmstate_xhci_event in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU 1.6.0 does not terminate the list with the VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST macro, w…

  • Unscored —

    Off-by-one error in the pci_read function in the ACPI PCI hotplug interface (hw/acpi/pcihp.c) in QEMU allows local gues…

  • Unscored —

    The set_pixel_format function in ui/vnc.c in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a sm…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3615
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3640
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3689
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5263
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5388
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7815