The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4725-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory in iSCSI emulation. An attacker inside the guest     could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-11947)

    Alexander Bulekov discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Intel e1000e emulation. An attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-15859)

    Alexander Bulekov discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory region cache. An attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-27821)

    Cheol-woo Myung discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Intel e1000e emulation. An attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu     20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-28916)

    Wenxiang Qian discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled ATAPI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could     use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-29443)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. An attacker inside the guest     could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-20181)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-4725-1)

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