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SUSE: CVE-2016-2538: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-2538: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/24/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/28/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or obtain sensitive host memory information via a remote NDIS control message packet that is mishandled in the (1) rndis_query_response, (2) rndis_set_response, or (3) usb_net_handle_dataout function.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-curl
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-rbd
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ipxe
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-lang
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ppc
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-s390
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-seabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-sgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-tools
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-vgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-x86
  • suse-upgrade-xen
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-pdf
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1560-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1698-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1703-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1745-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1785-1
  • 83336
  • USN-2974-1
  • GLSA-201604-01
  • CVE-2016-2538
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