UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12617

qmpguestfileread in qga/commands-posix.c and qga/commands-win32.c in qemu-ga aka QEMU Guest Agent in QEMU 2.12.50 has an integer overflow causing a gmalloc0 call to trigger a segmentation fault when trying to allocate a large memory chunk. The vulnerability can be exploited by sending a crafted Q...

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that QEMU Guest Agent the "qemu-ga" service created certain files with world-writable permissions when run in daemon mode the default mode. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to consume all free space on the partition containing the qemu-ga log file, or modify the content...