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Bug 1303106 - (CVE-2016-2841) CVE-2016-2841 Qemu: net: ne2000: infinite loop in ne2000_receive
CVE-2016-2841 Qemu: net: ne2000: infinite loop in ne2000_receive
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20160202,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1304047 1304048
Blocks: 1303107
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Reported: 2016-01-29 10:04 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-07-18 10:48 EDT (History)
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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).
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-29 10:04:33 EST 
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 1 Adam Mariš 2016-01-29 16:39:39 EST 
Acknowledgments:

Red Hat would like to thank Hongke Yang of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. for reporting this issue.
Comment 2 Prasad J Pandit 2016-02-02 12:58:01 EST 
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 J Pandit 2016-02-02 13:04:59 EST 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1304048]
Comment 4 Prasad J Pandit 2016-02-02 13:05:18 EST 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1304047]
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-03-19 17:23:11 EDT 
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 2016-03-19 22:27:06 EDT 
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 18:22:50 EDT 
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 14:00:35 EDT 
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 16:23:52 EDT 
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.
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