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Debian: CVE-2018-10839: qemu -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-10839: qemu -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/16/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/12/2018
Modified
02/14/2023

Description

Qemu emulator <= 3.0.0 built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-qemu

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