Bug 991466 (CVE-2016-6490) - VUL-1: CVE-2016-6490: Qemu: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop
Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2016-6490: Qemu: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2016-6490
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P4 - Low : Minor
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Assignee: Bruce Rogers
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/171443/
Whiteboard: CVSSv2:RedHat:CVE-2016-6490:2.3:(AV:A...
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Reported: 2016-08-01 12:11 UTC by Sebastian Krahmer
Modified: 2017-03-08 16:24 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Found By: Security Response Team
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Description Sebastian Krahmer 2016-08-01 12:11:48 UTC 
Quoting from RH BZ:

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the virtio framework is vulnerable to an 
infinite loop issue. It could occur if the guest was to set the I/O descriptor 
buffer length to be zero. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw 
to potentially crash the Qemu instance on the host resulting in DoS.


rh#1361427

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1361427
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-6490
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/188
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-6490.html
Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2016-08-16 14:06:24 UTC 
as far as I see the code is only on qemu on SLES 12 SP2, and not even SLES 12 SP1. 

can you cross check and fix it there please.
Comment 2 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-10-21 17:11:11 UTC 
SUSE-SU-2016:2589-1: An update that solves 19 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 1000048,967012,967013,982017,982018,982019,982222,982223,982285,982959,983961,983982,991080,991466,994760,994771,994774,996441,997858,997859
CVE References: CVE-2016-2391,CVE-2016-2392,CVE-2016-4453,CVE-2016-4454,CVE-2016-5105,CVE-2016-5106,CVE-2016-5107,CVE-2016-5126,CVE-2016-5238,CVE-2016-5337,CVE-2016-5338,CVE-2016-5403,CVE-2016-6490,CVE-2016-6833,CVE-2016-6836,CVE-2016-6888,CVE-2016-7116,CVE-2016-7155,CVE-2016-7156
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (src):    qemu-2.3.1-21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 (src):    qemu-2.3.1-21.1
Comment 3 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-10-25 18:16:07 UTC 
SUSE-SU-2016:2628-1: An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 902737,944697,967012,967013,982017,982018,982019,982222,982223,982285,982959,983961,983982,991080,991466,996441
CVE References: CVE-2014-7815,CVE-2015-6815,CVE-2016-2391,CVE-2016-2392,CVE-2016-4453,CVE-2016-4454,CVE-2016-5105,CVE-2016-5106,CVE-2016-5107,CVE-2016-5126,CVE-2016-5238,CVE-2016-5337,CVE-2016-5338,CVE-2016-5403,CVE-2016-6490,CVE-2016-7116
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (src):    kvm-1.4.2-47.1
Comment 4 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-10-26 12:14:15 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2016:2642-1: An update that solves 19 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 1000048,967012,967013,982017,982018,982019,982222,982223,982285,982959,983961,983982,991080,991466,994760,994771,994774,996441,997858,997859
CVE References: CVE-2016-2391,CVE-2016-2392,CVE-2016-4453,CVE-2016-4454,CVE-2016-5105,CVE-2016-5106,CVE-2016-5107,CVE-2016-5126,CVE-2016-5238,CVE-2016-5337,CVE-2016-5338,CVE-2016-5403,CVE-2016-6490,CVE-2016-6833,CVE-2016-6836,CVE-2016-6888,CVE-2016-7116,CVE-2016-7155,CVE-2016-7156
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 42.1 (src):    qemu-2.3.1-19.3, qemu-linux-user-2.3.1-19.1, qemu-testsuite-2.3.1-19.6
Comment 5 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-11-12 07:09:52 UTC 
SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1: An update that fixes 21 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 893323,944697,967012,967013,982017,982018,982019,982222,982223,982285,982959,983961,983982,991080,991466,994760,994771,994774,996441,997858,997859
CVE References: CVE-2014-5388,CVE-2015-6815,CVE-2016-2391,CVE-2016-2392,CVE-2016-4453,CVE-2016-4454,CVE-2016-5105,CVE-2016-5106,CVE-2016-5107,CVE-2016-5126,CVE-2016-5238,CVE-2016-5337,CVE-2016-5338,CVE-2016-5403,CVE-2016-6490,CVE-2016-6833,CVE-2016-6836,CVE-2016-6888,CVE-2016-7116,CVE-2016-7155,CVE-2016-7156
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12 (src):    qemu-2.0.2-48.22.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS (src):    qemu-2.0.2-48.22.1
Comment 6 Bruce Rogers 2017-03-08 16:24:26 UTC 
Fixed.