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Daily Archives: June 19, 2023
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Funds will help to protect under-siege country’s critical infrastructure
USN-6176-1: PyPDF2 vulnerability
It was discovered that PyPDF2 incorrectly handled certain PDF files. If a
user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted
file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to consume system
resources, resulting in a denial of service.
USN-6167-1: QEMU vulnerabilities
It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage the guest drivers when
shared buffers are not allocated. A malicious guest driver could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu
22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-1050)
It was discovered that QEMU did not properly check the size of the
structure pointed to by the guest physical address pqxl. A malicious guest
attacker 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,
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.
(CVE-2022-4144)
It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage memory in the ACPI
Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) device. A malicious guest attacker
could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-4172)
It was discovered that QEMU did not properly manage memory when DMA memory
writes happen repeatedly in the lsi53c895a device. A malicious guest
attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial
of service. (CVE-2023-0330)