SB2023082840 - SUSE update for qemu
Published: August 28, 2023
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3638)
The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU within the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations. A malicious guest can crash the QEMU process on the host.
2) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3750)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the USB EHCI controller emulation of QEMU. A remote guest can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the host OS.
3) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0330)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within hw/scsi/lsi53c895a.c in QEMU caused by a DMA-MMIO reentrancy problem. A local privileged user can trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
4) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3180)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the virtio_crypto_handle_sym_req() function in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c of the QEMU virtual crypto device when handling data encryption/decryption requests. A local user trigger an out-of-bounds write and perform a denial of service 9DoS) attack.
5) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3301)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion. When a peer nic is still attached to the vdpa backend, it is too early to free up the vhost-net and vdpa structures. If these structures are freed here, then QEMU crashes when the guest is being shut down.
6) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3354)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the QEMU built-in VNC server. When a client connects to the VNC server, QEMU checks whether the current number of connections crosses a certain threshold and if so, cleans up the previous connection. If the previous connection happens to be in the handshake phase and fails, QEMU cleans up the connection again, resulting in NULL pointer dereference and denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.