QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It occurs when a guest sends a Layer-2 packet smaller than 22 bytes. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade qemu | Feb 9, 2016 | Feb 8, 2016 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-emulation/qemu. | Oct 30, 2017 | Dec 29, 2016 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade qemu-hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccwUpgrade qemu-ui-cursesUpgrade qemu-seabiosUpgrade xen-tools-domUUpgrade qemu-ui-gtkUpgrade qemu-ui-spice-coreUpgrade xen-kmp-paeUpgrade qemu-s390Upgrade qemu-sgabiosUpgrade qemu-microvmUpgrade qemu-ksmUpgrade qemu-audio-paUpgrade qemu-block-curlUpgrade qemu-hw-usb-redirectUpgrade qemu-guest-agentUpgrade qemu-x86Upgrade qemu-kvmUpgrade qemu-ppcUpgrade qemu-block-iscsiUpgrade qemu-audio-alsaUpgrade xenUpgrade qemu-vgabiosUpgrade qemu-chardev-baumUpgrade xen-toolsUpgrade qemu-skibootUpgrade xen-libs-32bitUpgrade xen-libsUpgrade qemu-ui-openglUpgrade qemu-armUpgrade qemu-ui-spice-appUpgrade xen-doc-htmlUpgrade qemu-audio-spiceUpgrade qemu-langUpgrade qemu-hw-display-qxlUpgrade qemu-hw-display-virtio-vgaUpgrade qemu-toolsUpgrade qemu-audio-ossUpgrade qemuUpgrade qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-pciUpgrade qemu-block-rbdUpgrade xen-develUpgrade qemu-s390xUpgrade qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpuUpgrade qemu-block-sshUpgrade xen-tools-xendomains-wait-diskUpgrade xen-kmp-defaultUpgrade qemu-ipxeUpgrade qemu-chardev-spice | Mar 28, 2016 | Mar 24, 2016 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade qemu-system-miscUpgrade qemu-kvmUpgrade qemu-system-ppcUpgrade qemu-system-armUpgrade qemu-system-aarch64Upgrade qemu-system-sparcUpgrade qemu-system-x86Upgrade qemu-systemUpgrade qemu-system-mips | Feb 3, 2016 | Feb 3, 2016 |
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