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CVE-2017-13711 Qemu: Slirp: use-after-free when sending response


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:15:17 +0530 (IST)

   Hello,

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the Slirp networking support is vulnerable to an use-after-free issue. It occurs due to Socket referenced from multiple packets is freed while responding to a message.

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

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg05201.html

Reference:
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  -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486400

This issue was reported by Wjjzhang.

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