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A qemu security update has been released for Arch Linux to address arbitrary code execution and denial of service issues.



Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202005-6
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Severity: High
Date : 2020-05-07
CVE-ID : CVE-2019-20382 CVE-2020-1711 CVE-2020-7039
Package : qemu
Type : multiple issues
Remote : Yes
Link :   https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1110

Summary
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The package qemu before version 5.0.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple
issues including arbitrary code execution and denial of service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 5.0.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "qemu>=5.0.0-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 5.0.0.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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- CVE-2019-20382 (denial of service)

A memory leak has been found in in the way VNC display driver of QEMU