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Unscored USN-3289-1 6 CVEs

qemu vulnerabilities

Published May 16, 2017 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing.
A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7377, CVE-2017-8086)

Jiangxin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device. A
privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7718)

Li Qiang and Jiangxin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus
VGA device when being used with a VNC connection. A privileged attacker
inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in
a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the
default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be
isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2017-7980)

Jiang Xin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the audio subsystem. A
privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-8309)

Jiang Xin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the input subsystem. A
privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-8379)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS qemu 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.34
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS qemu 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.14

Vulnerabilities 6

  • Unscored —

    The (1) v9fs_create and (2) v9fs_lcreate functions in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allow local guest OS pr…

  • Unscored —

    hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of se…

  • Unscored —

    Heap-based buffer overflow in Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator in Quick Emulator (Qemu) 2.8 and earlier allows local guest…

  • Unscored —

    Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS pr…

  • Unscored —

    Memory leak in the audio/audio.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mem…

  • Unscored —

    Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged …

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7377
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7718
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7980
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8086
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8309
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8379