Bug 1303106 (CVE-2016-2841)

Summary:	CVE-2016-2841 Qemu: net: ne2000: infinite loop in ne2000_receive
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abaron, ailan, alonbl, apevec, areis, ayoung, bmcclain, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, dallan, dblechte, drjones, gkotton, imammedo, jen, jjoyce, jschluet, kbasil, knoel, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mkenneth, mrezanin, mst, osoukup, pbonzini, ppandit, rbryant, rkrcmar, sclewis, security-response-team, slong, srevivo, tdecacqu, virt-maint, vkuznets, ykaul
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	An infinite-loop flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with NE2000 NIC emulation support. The flaw could occur when receiving packets over the network. A privileged user inside a guest could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU instance (denial of service).	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:48:01 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1304047, 1304048
Bug Blocks:	1303107

Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-29 15:04:33 UTC

Qemu emulator built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network.

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

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06126.html

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/8

Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2016-02-02 17:58:01 UTC

Statement:

This has been rated as having Low 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/.

Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2016-02-02 18:04:59 UTC

Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1304048]

Comment 4 Prasad Pandit 2016-02-02 18:05:18 UTC

Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1304047]

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-03-19 21:23:11 UTC

xen-4.5.2-9.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-03-20 02:27:06 UTC

xen-4.5.2-9.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-03-23 22:22:50 UTC

qemu-2.4.1-8.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-03-26 18:00:35 UTC

qemu-2.5.0-10.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-04-08 20:23:52 UTC

qemu-2.3.1-13.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.