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Message-Id: <20160307025938.A687152E014@smtpvbsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2016 21:59:38 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, liuling-it@....cn
Subject: Re: CVE request Qemu: net: out of bounds read in net_checksum_calculate

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> Qemu emulator built with the IP checksum routines is vulnerable to an OOB read
> access issue. It could occur while computing checksum for TCP/UDP packets, as
> the function uses payload length from the packet without checking against the
> data buffer size.
> 
> A user inside guest could use this flaw to read excessive bytes or crash the
> Qemu process resulting in DoS.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg00671.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296567

Use CVE-2016-2857.

This is not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=net/checksum.c but
that may be an expected place for a later update.

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