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Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:03:39 -0700
From: Oracle Security Alerts <secalert_us@...cle.com>
To: kseifried@...hat.com
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Raphael Geissert <geissert@...ian.org>,
        security@...cle.com
Subject: Re: Possible CVE request: virtualbox virtio-net host
 DoS

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Hi Kurt,

On 7/5/13 12:22 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 07/05/2013 04:13 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> Quoting [1]:
>>> I have discovered a problem with virtio-net that leads to a 
>>> lockup of the host machine's kernel and the need for a hard
>>> reset to make it working again.
> 
>> The bug is said to be worked around in version 4.2.14 and really 
>> fixed in 4.2.16, but the changelog of either version doesn't 
>> reference that ticket.
> 
>> Rumors say that virtualbox makes the host randomly hang, but
>> since there is an actual bug report and confirmation from
>> upstream this time I guess a CVE id should be assigned.
> 
>> [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11863 [2] 
>> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog [3] 
>> https://secunia.com/advisories/53858/
> 
>> Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - 
>> get.debian.net
> 
> Oracle is a CNA so they should handle this:
> 
> http://cve.mitre.org/cve/cna.html
> 
> CC'ing them. Can you guys assign one quickly so this can be
> properly tracked? Thanks!

Please use CVE-2013-3792 to track this issue.

Thanks,
- -Ritwik Ghoshal

- --
Best Regards,

Oracle Security Alerts
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