Re: CVE-2017-6000 Qemu: crypto: memory leakage in qcrypto_ivgen_essiv_init

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

+-- On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, P J P wrote --+
| A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory resulting in 
| DoS.
| 
| Upstream patch:
| ---------------
|   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg00295.html
|   -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422656
| 
| This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc.

This one turned out to be a non security issue, as guest could not trigger 
this memory leak.

| 'CVE-2017-6000' assigned via -> https://cveform.mitre.org/

CVE has been cancelled
  -> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6000

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