{"id":"USN-4511-1","summary":"qemu vulnerability","details":"Ziming Zhang, Xiao Wei, Gonglei Arei, and Yanyu Zhang discovered that QEMU\nincorrectly handled certain USB packets. An attacker inside the guest could\nuse this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or\npossibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation,\nwhen QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt\nAppArmor profile.\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:55Z","published":"2020-09-17T11:10:51Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14364"],"upstream":["CVE-2020-14364","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14364"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4511-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14364"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"qemu","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/qemu@1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.46?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.46"}]}],"versions":["1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9","1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu10","1:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu1","1:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu2","1:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu3","1:2.4+dfsg-5ubuntu3","1:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu2","1:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu3","1:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu4","1:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu5","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu1","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu2","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu4","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu6","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu7","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.1","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.2","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.4","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.5","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.7","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.8","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.9","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.10","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.13","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.14","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.15","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.16","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.20","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.21","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.22","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.24","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.25","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.26","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.28","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.29","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.30","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.31","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.32","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.33","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.34","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.35","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.36","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.37","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.38","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.39","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.40","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.41","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.42","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.43","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.44","1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.45"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No 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