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CVE-2010-0741 qemu: Improper handling of erroneous data provided by Linux virtio-net driver
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:36:42 +0200 (CEST)
Hello vendors, Josh Bressers has assigned a CVE id CVE-2010-0741 to the following bug:A flaw was found in the way the QEMU-KVM handled erroneous data provided by the guest Linux virtio-net driver. Due deficiency in the implementation of the TSO (TCP segment offloading), the guest's virtio-net driver transmitted improper data to the particular QEMU-KVM process on the host, resulting in its termination. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service (guest crash) by sending certain, specially-crafted data to arbitrary open port on the target guest system.
A remote attacker could exploit this to crash guests which use virtio networking on Linux kernels earlier than 2.6.26.Note that this was previously reported in Canonical's launchpad but no CVE name was ever assigned AFAIK.
References: ----------- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577218 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/56479/ https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/458521 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-10/msg02480.html Upstream patch: --------------- http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commit;h=184bd0484533b725194fa517ddc271ffd74da7c9 Thanks && Regards, Petr. -- Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team
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