CVE-2018-19489: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

v9fs_wstat in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (crash) because of a race condition during file renaming.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.3 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 3.0.0; version 3.1.0 only

Published 2018-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.