Bug 1336650 (CVE-2016-4453) - CVE-2016-4453 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine
Summary: CVE-2016-4453 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-4453
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1340744 1340746
Blocks: 1336467
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-17 06:56 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:52 UTC (History)
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Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMware-SVGA "chipset" emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing VGA commands via its FIFO buffer. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:52:00 UTC
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2016-05-17 06:58 UTC, Andrej Nemec 		no flags Details
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-17 06:56:19 UTC 
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMware-SVGA "chipset" emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing VGA commands via its FIFO buffer.

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

Upstream patch
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg05270.html

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/30/2
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-17 06:56:38 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Li Qiang (Qihoo 360 Inc.)
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-17 06:58:09 UTC 
Created attachment 1158193 [details]
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Comment 5 Prasad Pandit 2016-05-30 08:47:07 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1340746]
Comment 6 Prasad Pandit 2016-05-30 08:47:25 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1340744]
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-06-17 15:57:51 UTC 
xen-4.5.3-8.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 2016-06-18 18:44:29 UTC 
xen-4.6.1-11.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 2016-06-25 19:25:28 UTC 
qemu-2.6.0-4.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-07-02 19:24:52 UTC 
qemu-2.3.1-16.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2016-07-02 19:30:10 UTC 
qemu-2.4.1-11.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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