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CVE Request Qemu: Information leak in vmxnet3_complete_packet
From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:53:17 +0530 (IST)
Hello,Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device support is vulnerable to an information leakage issue. It could occur while processing transmit(tx) queue, when it reaches the end of packet.
A privileged user inside guest could use this leak host memory bytes to a guest.
Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02108.html Reference: -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1366369 This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc. Thank you. -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team 47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F
Current thread:
- CVE Request Qemu: Information leak in vmxnet3_complete_packet P J P (Aug 11)
- Re: CVE Request Qemu: Information leak in vmxnet3_complete_packet cve-assign (Aug 17)