Bug 1256661 (CVE-2015-5278)
| Summary: | CVE-2015-5278 qemu: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive() function | ||||||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Adam Mariš <amaris> | ||||
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | abaron, amit.shah, aortega, apevec, areis, ayoung, berrange, carnil, cfergeau, chrisw, dallan, dwmw2, gkotton, itamar, jen, jforbes, jschluet, knoel, kraxel, lhh, lpeer, markmc, m.a.young, mkenneth, mrezanin, mst, pbonzini, ppandit, rbalakri, rbryant, rjones, sclewis, security-response-team, slong, tdecacqu, virt-maint, virt-maint, yeylon | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: |
A flaw was found where a QEMU emulator built with NE2000 NIC emulation support was vulnerable to an infinite loop issue that occurred when receiving packets over the network. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance, resulting in a denial of service.
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| Last Closed: | 2016-02-02 18:07:46 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | 1263281, 1263284 | ||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 1256665 | ||||||
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Description
Adam Mariš
2015-08-25 08:24:32 UTC
Created attachment 1066776 [details]
Crash report
Statement: This issue affects the versions of kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. Created xen tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1263281] Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1263284] qemu-2.4.0-4.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xen-4.5.1-9.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xen-4.5.1-9.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xen-4.4.3-4.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. qemu-2.3.1-5.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. qemu-2.1.3-11.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |