Ubuntu Security Notice USN-863-1
3rd December, 2009
qemu-kvm vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 9.10
Software description
- qemu-kvm
Details
It was discovered that QEMU did not properly setup the virtio networking
features available to its guests. A remote attacker could exploit this to
crash QEMU guests which use virtio networking on Linux kernels earlier
than 2.6.26.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 9.10:
- qemu-kvm 0.11.0-0ubuntu6.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any QEMU guests to
effect the necessary changes.