Bugzilla – Bug 994771
VUL-0: CVE-2016-6888: kvm,qemu: Integer overflow in packet initialisation in VMXNET3 device driver. Aprivileged user inside guest c...
Last modified: 2017-03-08 16:23:46 UTC
CVE-2016-6888 Hello, Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device support, with network abstraction layer is vulnerable to an integer overflow issue. It could occur while initialisation of a new packets in the device. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu instance resulting in DoS. Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03176.html This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03176.html http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=47882fa4975bf0b58dd74474329fdd7154e8f04c References: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-6888 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/340 http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-6888.html
vmxnet driver is in sles12 qemu and later, but not in sle11 I think
bugbot adjusting priority
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
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
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
Fixed.