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Date: Sat,  5 Sep 2015 12:11:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, luodalongde@...il.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop issue

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> Qemu emulator built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an
> infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing transmit descriptor data
> when sending a network packet.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu instance
> resulting in DoS.

> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg01199.html
> 
> [The guest can force 'bytes' to 0 by setting the hdr_len and mss
> descriptor fields to 0.

Use CVE-2015-6815.

(not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=hw/net/e1000.c)

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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
[ PGP key available through http://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html ]
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