cve-2016-6834
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-10 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:43
Severity ?
Summary
The net_tx_pkt_do_sw_fragmentation function in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a zero length for the current fragment length.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ead315e43ea0c2ca3491209c6c8db8ce3f2bbe05
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92446Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01601.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ead315e43ea0c2ca3491209c6c8db8ce3f2bbe05
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92446Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01601.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory
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