USN-5009-2: libslirp vulnerabilities

26 October 2021

Several security issues were fixed in libslirp.

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Releases

Packages

  • libslirp - General purpose TCP-IP emulator library

Details

USN-5009-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libslirp. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 21.10.

Original advisory 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)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.10

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

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