The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software allows a malicious actor to trigger a failure in the host operating system’s maintenance or execute arbitrary code.

The QEMU software contains a vulnerability related to buffer overflows when the virtionethandlemac function is called to update the MAC address table of the guest operating system. This allows the user of the guest operating system to compromise the integrity of the dynamic memory of the host...

[USN-2182-1] QEMU vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2182-1 April 28, 2014 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...