USN-5772-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

23782

13 April 2023

13 April 2023

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2021-3682,CVE-2021-3750,CVE-2021-3930,CVE-2022-0216,CVE-2022-2962,CVE-2022-3165

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled bulk transfers from SPICE clients. A remote attacker could 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 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2021-3682) It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage memory when it transfers the USB packets. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3750) It was discovered that the QEMU SCSI device emulation incorrectly handled certain MODE SELECT commands. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2021-3930) It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage memory when it processing repeated messages to cancel the current SCSI request. A malicious privileged guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-0216) It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage memory when it using Tulip device emulation. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-2962) It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage memory when processing ClientCutText messages. A attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3165) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5772-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: qemu-system-common - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-user-static - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system-s390x - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-utils - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-block-extra - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-kvm - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-user - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-guest-agent - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system-misc - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system-aarch64 - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-user-binfmt - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system-x86 - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system-sparc - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system-arm - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system-ppc - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 qemu-system-mips - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-3682, CVE-2021-3750, CVE-2021-3930, CVE-2022-0216, CVE-2022-2962, CVE-2022-3165

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.51
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.2

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.51
    • 3.0.2

References

History

2023-04-13: Initial vulnerability report published.