Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It could occur while reading Interrupt Mask Registers (IMR). A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4 ↗
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 ↗