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USN-8412-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Details Felipe Franciosi, Raphael Norwitz, and Peter Turschmid discovered that the iSCSI block driver in QEMU incorrectly handled certain responses from an iSCSI server. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-1711) It was discovered that the iSCSI block driver in QEMU incorrectly handled certain memory operations, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information from the host. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-11947) Ziming Zhang discovered that the SM501 display driver in QEMU contained an integer overflow. A local attacker could possibly use this…

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