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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, liqiang6-s@....cn
Subject: Re: CVE Request Qemu: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop

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> Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the virtio framework is vulnerable to an
> infinite loop issue. It could occur if the guest was to set the I/O descriptor
> buffer length to be zero. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw
> to potentially crash the Qemu instance on the host resulting in DoS.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html

Use CVE-2016-6490.

This is not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=hw/virtio/virtio.c but
that may be an expected place for a later update.

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