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CVE request Qemu: net: ne2000: OOB r/w in ioport operations


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 17:23:02 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

Qemu emulator built with the NE2000 device emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while performing 'ioport' r/w operations.

A privileged(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) user/process could use this flaw to leak or corrupt Qemu memory bytes(3).

Upstream fix:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg00050.html

Reference:
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  -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264929

This issue was discovered by Ling Liu of Qihoo 360 Inc.

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