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.

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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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Version 1.5 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
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