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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-6567-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187683

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6567-1 advisory.

 Gaoning Pan and Xingwei Li discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB xHCI controller device. A privileged guest attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14394)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the TCG Accelerator. A local attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code and esclate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-24165)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Intel HD audio device. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3611)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the ATI VGA device. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3638)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VMWare paravirtual RDMA device. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-1544)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 9p passthrough filesystem. A malicious guest attacker could possibly use this issue to open special files and escape the exported 9p tree. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-2861)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual crypto device. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3180)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the built-in VNC server. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3255)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled net device hot-unplugging. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3301)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the built-in VNC server. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3354)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled NVME devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10.
 (CVE-2023-40360)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled NVME devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.
 This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-4135)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SCSI devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-42467)

 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain disk offsets. A malicious guest attacker could possibly use this issue to gain control of the host in certain nested virtualization scenarios.
 (CVE-2023-5088)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6567-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 187683

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6567-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/8/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3638

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24165

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-user, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-gui, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-xen, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-user-static, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-mips, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-x86-xen, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-s390x, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-x86, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-misc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-arm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-x86-microvm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-ppc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-user-binfmt, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-block-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-system-sparc

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14394, CVE-2020-24165, CVE-2021-3611, CVE-2021-3638, CVE-2023-1544, CVE-2023-2861, CVE-2023-3180, CVE-2023-3255, CVE-2023-3301, CVE-2023-3354, CVE-2023-40360, CVE-2023-4135, CVE-2023-42467, CVE-2023-5088

IAVB: 2023-B-0058-S, 2023-B-0073-S, 2024-B-0022-S

USN: 6567-1