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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-6834: qemu-kvm security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 10, 2016
Added
Apr 16, 2020
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

The net_tx_pkt_do_sw_fragmentation function in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a zero length for the current fragment length.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-qemu-imghuawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-qemu-kvmhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common
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