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Bug 560760 (CVE-2015-7295)

Summary: <app-emulation/qemu-2.4.0-r2: DoS in Virtual Network Device (virtio-net) (CVE-2015-7295)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) <k_f>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: qemu+disabled
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/579
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-09-18 11:02:08 UTC
From ${URL}:
  Hello,

Qemu emulator built with the Virtual Network Device(virtio-net) support is vulnerable to a DoS issue. It could occur while receiving large packets over the tuntap/macvtap interfaces and when guest's virtio-net driver did not support big/mergeable receive buffers.

An attacker on the local network could use this flaw to disable guest's
networking by sending a large number of jumbo frames to the guest, exhausting
all receive buffers and thus leading to a DoS situation.

Upstream fixes:
---------------
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg04729.html
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg04730.html
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg04731.html

[PATCH 3/3] above fixes this issue by discarding the used descriptors.

Thank you.
-- 
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2015-10-10 01:00:00 UTC
qemu-2.4.0.1 in the tree should have the fixes for this and should be fine to mark stable

http://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4703b062bb7d0c6ebdf91827a3396435e6dea74a
Comment 3 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2015-11-03 17:31:23 UTC
We now have 2.4.0.1-r1  do you want to go with that as stable? or with 2.4.0.1
Comment 4 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-11-11 10:00:19 UTC
Also 2.4.1 is now in tree

@maintainers: Can you please advise on which version to stabilize?

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commit 8ba1e580c6566005cfe98625e52b94803f367528
Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 11:36:45 2015 -0500

    app-emulation/qemu: version bump to 2.4.1 #564990


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Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2015-12-18 17:10:29 UTC
stabilized in another bug.

cleanup done by vapier
Comment 6 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2015-12-25 00:34:48 UTC
Arches and Maintainer(s), Thank you for your work.

Added to an existing GLSA Request.
Comment 7 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2016-02-04 09:34:07 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).