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CVE Request Qemu: net: pcnet: infinite loop in pcnet_rdra_addr


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 17:25:36 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the AMD PC-Net II emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving packets via pcnet_receive().

A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading to DoS.

Upstream patch
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07942.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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