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CVE request: Qemu: ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 18:01:03 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

Qemu emulator built with the VNC display driver support is vulnerable to an arithmetic exception flaw. It occurs on the VNC server side while processing the 'SetPixleFormat' messages from a client.

A privileged remote client could use this flaw to crash the guest resulting in DoS.

Upstream patch:
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  -> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=4c65fed8bdf96780735dbdb92a8b

This issue was discovered by Mr Lian Yihan of 360 Inc.

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