Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news
[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1608191655520.5616@wniryva>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:58:51 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@....cn>
Subject: CVE Request: Qemu: net: vmxnet: integer overflow in packet
 initialisation

   Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device support, with 
network abstraction layer is vulnerable to an integer overflow issue. It could 
occur while initialisation of a new packets in the device.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu instance 
resulting in DoS.

Upstream patch:
---------------
   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03176.html

This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc.

Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Please check out the Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this mailing list.

Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.