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Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2016 22:02:33 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request Qemu: rng-random: arbitrary stack based allocation leading to corruption

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> Qemu emulator built with the Pseudo Random Number Generator(PRNG) back-end
> support is vulnerable to an arbitrary stack based allocation and memory
> corruption via random bytes issue. It could occur when a guest requests for
> entropy for random number generation.
> 
> A user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process
> resulting in DoS.
> 
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676

Use CVE-2016-2858.

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