qemu was updated to fix several issues. These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-9102: Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate     function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS     administrators to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number     of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number     (bsc#1014256).

  - CVE-2016-9103: The v9fs_xattrcreate function in     hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS administrators to     obtain sensitive host heap memory information by reading     xattribute values writing to them (bsc#1007454).

  - CVE-2016-9381: Improper processing of shared rings     allowing guest administrators take over the qemu     process, elevating their privilege to that of the qemu     process (bsc#1009109)

  - CVE-2016-9776: The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller     emulator support was vulnerable to an infinite loop     issue while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A     privileged user/process inside guest could have used     this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading     to DoS (bsc#1013285).

  - CVE-2016-9845: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support as     vulnerable to an information leakage issue while     processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO' command.
    A guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak     contents of the host memory (bsc#1013767).

  - CVE-2016-9846: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while updating     the cursor data in update_cursor_data_virgl. A guest     user/process could have used this flaw to leak host     memory bytes, resulting in DoS for the host     (bsc#1013764).

  - CVE-2016-9907: The USB redirector usb-guest support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw when destroying the     USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for a host (bsc#1014109).

  - CVE-2016-9908: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to an information leakage issue while     processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command. A     guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak     contents of the host memory (bsc#1014514).

  - CVE-2016-9911: The USB EHCI Emulation support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while processing     packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014111).

  - CVE-2016-9912: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while     destroying gpu resource object in     'virtio_gpu_resource_destroy'. A guest user/process     could have used this flaw to leak host memory bytes,     resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014112).

  - CVE-2016-9913: VirtFS was vulnerable to memory leakage     issue via its '9p-handle' or '9p-proxy' backend drivers.
    A privileged user inside guest could have used this flaw     to leak host memory, thus affecting other services on     the host and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on     the host (bsc#1014110).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

qemu was updated to fix several issues.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-9102: Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate     function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS     administrators to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number     of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number     (bsc#1014256).

  - CVE-2016-9103: The v9fs_xattrcreate function in     hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS administrators to     obtain sensitive host heap memory information by reading     xattribute values writing to them (bsc#1007454).

  - CVE-2016-9381: Improper processing of shared rings     allowing guest administrators take over the qemu     process, elevating their privilege to that of the qemu     process (bsc#1009109)

  - CVE-2016-9776: The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller     emulator support was vulnerable to an infinite loop     issue while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A     privileged user/process inside guest could have used     this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading     to DoS (bsc#1013285).

  - CVE-2016-9845: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support as     vulnerable to an information leakage issue while     processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO' command.
    A guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak     contents of the host memory (bsc#1013767).

  - CVE-2016-9846: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while updating     the cursor data in update_cursor_data_virgl. A guest     user/process could have used this flaw to leak host     memory bytes, resulting in DoS for the host     (bsc#1013764).

  - CVE-2016-9907: The USB redirector usb-guest support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw when destroying the     USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for a host (bsc#1014109).

  - CVE-2016-9908: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to an information leakage issue while     processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command. A     guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak     contents of the host memory (bsc#1014514).

  - CVE-2016-9911: The USB EHCI Emulation support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while processing     packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014111).

  - CVE-2016-9912: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while     destroying gpu resource object in     'virtio_gpu_resource_destroy'. A guest user/process     could have used this flaw to leak host memory bytes,     resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014112).

  - CVE-2016-9913: VirtFS was vulnerable to memory leakage     issue via its '9p-handle' or '9p-proxy' backend drivers.
    A privileged user inside guest could have used this flaw     to leak host memory, thus affecting other services on     the host and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on     the host (bsc#1014110).

These non-security issues were fixed :

  - Fixed uint64 property parsing and add regression tests     (bsc#937125)

  - Added a man page for kvm_stat

  - Fix crash in vte (bsc#1008519)

  - Various upstream commits targeted towards stable     releases (bsc#1013341)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Several vulnerabilities were found in QEMU, a fast processor emulator :

CVE-2016-2391

Zuozhi Fzz discovered that eof_times in USB OHCI emulation support could be used to cause a denial of service, via a NULL pointer dereference.

CVE-2016-2392 / CVE-2016-2538

Qinghao Tang found a NULL pointer dereference and multiple integer overflows in the USB Net device support that could allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service. These issues related to remote NDIS control message handling.

CVE-2016-2841

Yang Hongke reported an infinite loop vulnerability in the NE2000 NIC emulation support.

CVE-2016-2857

Liu Ling found a flaw in QEMU IP checksum routines. Attackers could take advantage of this issue to cause QEMU to crash.

CVE-2016-2858

Arbitrary stack based allocation in the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) back-end support.

CVE-2016-4001 / CVE-2016-4002

Oleksandr Bazhaniuk reported buffer overflows in the Stellaris and the MIPSnet ethernet controllers emulation. Remote malicious users could use these issues to cause QEMU to crash.

CVE-2016-4020

Donghai Zdh reported that QEMU incorrectly handled the access to the Task Priority Register (TPR), allowing local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory.

CVE-2016-4037

Du Shaobo found an infinite loop vulnerability in the USB EHCI emulation support.

CVE-2016-4439 / CVE-2016-4441 / CVE-2016-5238 / CVE-2016-5338 / CVE-2016-6351

Li Qiang found different issues in the QEMU 53C9X Fast SCSI Controller (FSC) emulation support, that made it possible for local guest OS privileged users to cause denials of service or potentially execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2016-4453 / CVE-2016-4454

Li Qiang reported issues in the QEMU VMWare VGA module handling, that may be used to cause QEMU to crash, or to obtain host sensitive information.

CVE-2016-4952 / CVE-2016-7421 / CVE-2016-7156

Li Qiang reported flaws in the VMware paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support. These issues concern an out-of-bounds access and infinite loops, that allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2016-5105 / CVE-2016-5106 / CVE-2016-5107 / CVE-2016-5337

Li Qiang discovered several issues in the MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support. These issues include stack information leakage while reading configuration and out-of-bounds write and read.

CVE-2016-6834

Li Qiang reported an infinite loop vulnerability during packet fragmentation in the network transport abstraction layer support.
Local guest OS privileged users could made use of this flaw to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2016-6836 / CVE-2016-6888

Li Qiang found issues in the VMWare VMXNET3 network card emulation support, relating to information leak and integer overflow in packet initialisation.

CVE-2016-7116

Felix Wilhel discovered a directory traversal flaw in the Plan 9 File System (9pfs), exploitable by local guest OS privileged users.

CVE-2016-7155

Tom Victor and Li Qiang reported an out-of-bounds read and an infinite loop in the VMware paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support.

CVE-2016-7161

Hu Chaojian reported a heap overflow in the xlnx.xps-ethernetlite emulation support. Privileged users in local guest OS could made use of this to cause QEMU to crash.

CVE-2016-7170

Qinghao Tang and Li Qiang reported a flaw in the QEMU VMWare VGA module, that could be used by privileged user in local guest OS to cause QEMU to crash via an out-of-bounds stack memory access.

CVE-2016-7908 / CVE-2016-7909

Li Qiang reported infinite loop vulnerabilities in the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller and the AMD PC-Net II (Am79C970A) emulations.
These flaws allowed local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2016-8909

Huawei PSIRT found an infinite loop vulnerability in the Intel HDA emulation support, relating to DMA buffer stream processing.
Privileged users in local guest OS could made use of this to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2016-8910

Andrew Henderson reported an infinite loop in the RTL8139 ethernet controller emulation support. Privileged users inside a local guest OS could made use of this to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2016-9101

Li Qiang reported a memory leakage in the i8255x (PRO100) ethernet controller emulation support.

CVE-2016-9102 / CVE-2016-9103 / CVE-2016-9104 / CVE-2016-9105 / CVE-2016-9106 / CVE-2016-8577 / CVE-2016-8578

Li Qiang reported various Plan 9 File System (9pfs) security issues, including host memory leakage and denial of service.

CVE-2017-10664

Denial of service in the qemu-nbd (QEMU Disk Network Block Device) Server.

CVE-2018-10839 / CVE-2018-17962 / CVE-2018-17963

Daniel Shapira reported several integer overflows in the packet handling in ethernet controllers emulated by QEMU. These issues could lead to denial of service.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3125-1 advisory.

    Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio module. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-5403)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6833,     CVE-2016-6834, CVE-2016-6888)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used     with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. This issue only affected Ubuntu     14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6835)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host memory.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6836)

    Felix Wilhelm discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host files. (CVE-2016-7116)

    Li Qiang and Tom Victor discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus     emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash,     resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu     16.10. (CVE-2016-7155)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7156,     CVE-2016-7421)

    Tom Victor discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled LSI SAS1068 host bus emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7157)

    Hu Chaojian discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled xlnx.xps-ethernetlite emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service,     or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with     libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-7161)

    Qinghao Tang and Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VMWare VGA module. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-7170)

    Qinghao Tang and Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio module. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7422)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled LSI SAS1068 host bus emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7423)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI controller emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7466)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2016-7908)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled AMD PC-Net II emulation support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-7909)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU support. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7994)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7995)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI controller support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-8576)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-8577, CVE-2016-8578)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Rocker switch emulation support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-8668)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Intel HDA controller emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial     of service. (CVE-2016-8909)

    Andrew Henderson discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled RTL8139 ethernet controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in     a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8910)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Intel i8255x ethernet controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in     a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9101)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2016-9102, CVE-2016-9104, CVE-2016-9105)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host memory. (CVE-2016-9103)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9106)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
96529	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2017:0127-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/16/2017	1/5/2026	high
96623	openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2017-116)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/19/2017	1/5/2026	high
119310	Debian DLA-1599-1 : qemu security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	12/1/2018	7/18/2024	critical
94669	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-3125-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	11/10/2016	9/3/2025	critical

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