USN-3651-1: QEMU update

qemu update

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Side channel execution mitigations were added to QEMU.

Software Description

• qemu - Machine emulator and virtualizer

Details

Ken Johnson and Jann Horn independently discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. An attacker in the guest could use this to expose sensitive guest information, including kernel memory. This update allows QEMU to expose new CPU features added by microcode updates to guests on amd64 and i386.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

qemu - 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.2

qemu-system - 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.2

qemu-system-x86 - 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.2

Ubuntu 17.10

qemu - 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3.7

qemu-system - 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3.7

qemu-system-x86 - 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3.7

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

qemu - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.29

qemu-system - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.29

qemu-system-x86 - 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.29

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

qemu - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.42

qemu-system - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.42

qemu-system-x86 - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.42

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart all QEMU virtual machines to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-3639
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/Variant4

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2kcxXxK