CVE-2019-8934

Publication date 21 March 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

hw/ppc/spapr.c in QEMU through 3.1.0 allows Information Exposure because the hypervisor shares the /proc/device-tree/system-id and /proc/device-tree/model system attributes with a guest.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Ignored
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
qemu-kvm	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

see debian bug for information on this change that may break existing functionnality. This fix will break ppc migration. we will not be fixing this issue in stable releases, marking as ignored

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
qemu	Upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=27461d69a0f108dea756419251acc3ea65198f1b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.3 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N