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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-2630: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-2630: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in the Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 2.9 built with the Network Block Device (NBD) client support. The flaw could occur while processing server's response to a 'NBD_OPT_LIST' request. A malicious NBD server could use this issue to crash a remote NBD client resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on client host with privileges of the QEMU process.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu

References

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