CVE request Qemu: an infinite loop during packet fragmentation

[P J P <ppandit () redhat com>]

   Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device support,
with network abstraction layer is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue.
It could occur while fragmenting packets in the device.

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

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01601.html

This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc.


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