Bug 1289541 (CVE-2015-8504) - CVE-2015-8504 Qemu: ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception
Summary: CVE-2015-8504 Qemu: ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-8504
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1289542 1289544
Blocks: 1267157
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-08 12:09 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2023-05-12 18:39 UTC (History)
40 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
An arithmetic-exception flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with VNC display-driver support. The VNC server incorrectly handled 'SetPixelFormat' messages sent from clients. A privileged remote client could use this flaw to crash the guest resulting in denial of service.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:46:12 UTC
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Description Prasad Pandit 2015-12-08 12:09:07 UTC 
Qemu emulator built with the VNC display driver support is vulnerable to an
arithmetic exception flaw. It occurs on the VNC server side while processing
the 'SetPixelFormat' messages from a client.

A privileged remote client could use this flaw to crash the guest resulting in
DoS.

Upstream patch:
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  -> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=4c65fed8bdf96780735dbdb92a8

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/08/7
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2015-12-08 12:10:57 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1289544]
Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2015-12-08 12:11:20 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1289542]
Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2015-12-08 12:32:25 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Lian Yihan of Qihoo 360 Inc.
Comment 4 Prasad Pandit 2015-12-08 13:03:13 UTC 
Statement: 

This issue does not affect the versions of the kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and 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 versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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/.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-12-14 10:20:51 UTC 
qemu-2.4.1-3.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-12-17 07:25:50 UTC 
xen-4.5.2-5.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-12-28 23:54:01 UTC 
qemu-2.3.1-9.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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