USN-3261-1 qemu vulnerabilities

Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An 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-2016-10028, CVE-2016-10029 Li Qiang discovered...

The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software allows a hacker to trigger a system failure or cause other adverse effects on the system.

The vulnerability of the Virtio GPU emulation software in QEMU is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an intruder, operating locally, to trigger a service failure or cause other effects on the system as a result of updating the cursor data...