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CVE-2017-11434 Qemu: slirp: out-of-bounds read while parsing dhcp options


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:50:56 +0530 (IST)

   Hello,

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the BOOTP/DHCP Server support is vulnerable to an OOB read issue. It could occur while parsing the DHCP options and vendor extensions options sent by a client.

A user/process could use this flaw to potentially crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg05001.html

Reference:
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  -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472611

This issue was reported by Reno Robert. CVE assigned via - https://cveform.mitre.org/


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