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CVE-2015-5278 Qemu: net: avoid infinite loop when receiving packets

From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:50:11 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

Qemu emulator built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to aninfinite loop issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network.

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


Upstream fix:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg03985.html


Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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