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Bug 557206 (CVE-2015-5745) - <app-emulation/qemu-2.3.0-r6: buffer overflow in virtio-serial (CVE-2015-5745)
Summary: <app-emulation/qemu-2.3.0-r6: buffer overflow in virtio-serial (CVE-2015-5745)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2015-5745
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qe...
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
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Reported: 2015-08-10 10:28 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2016-02-04 09:33 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2015-08-10 10:28:27 UTC 
From ${URL} :

It was reported that Qemu emulator built with the virtio-serial vmchannel support is vulnerable to a buffer overflow issue. It could occur while exchanging virtio control messages between guest & the host.

A malicious guest could use this flaw to corrupt few bytes of Qemu memory area, potentially crashing the Qemu process.

Upstream fix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg05458.html


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 2 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2015-08-10 11:12:53 UTC 
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #1)
> http://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/
> ?id=03aa7f1902aba68926f08b4e85f95ee9f474910a

Should we wait before go stable? Or can we stabilize that?
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2015-08-10 15:08:31 UTC 
stable is fine
Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2015-12-18 17:12:58 UTC 
stabilized in another bug.

cleanup done by vapier
Comment 5 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2015-12-25 00:23:57 UTC 
Arches and Maintainer(s), Thank you for your work.

Added to an existing GLSA Request.
Comment 6 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2016-02-04 09:33:30 UTC 
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201602-01 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
by GLSA coordinator Kristian Fiskerstrand (K_F).