USN-5009-1: libslirp vulnerabilities

Publication date

15 July 2021

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in libslirp.


Packages

  • libslirp - General purpose TCP-IP emulator library

Details

Qiuhao Li discovered that libslirp incorrectly handled certain header data
lengths. An attacker inside a guest could possibly use this issue to leak
sensitive information from the host. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04
LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-29129, CVE-2020-29130)

It was discovered that libslirp incorrectly handled certain udp packets. An
attacker inside a guest could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive
information from the host. (CVE-2021-3592, CVE-2021-3593, CVE-2021-3594,
CVE-2021-3595)

Qiuhao Li discovered that libslirp incorrectly handled certain header data
lengths. An attacker inside a guest could possibly use this issue to leak
sensitive information from the host. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04
LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-29129, CVE-2020-29130)

It was discovered that libslirp incorrectly handled certain udp packets. An
attacker inside a guest could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive
information from the host. (CVE-2021-3592, CVE-2021-3593, CVE-2021-3594,
CVE-2021-3595)

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
21.04 hirsute libslirp0 –  4.4.0-1ubuntu0.1
20.10 groovy libslirp0 –  4.3.1-1ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal libslirp0 –  4.1.0-2ubuntu2.2

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