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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2409-1

Posted Nov 13, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2409-1 - 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. 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, udp

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-3615, CVE-2014-3640, CVE-2014-3689, CVE-2014-5263, CVE-2014-5388, CVE-2014-7815

SHA-256 | 0560bed7a0207b09b9eee574c086a9c96540723b7c21d6b2f08c965ea0f7d038

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