NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1966369
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 9 Aug 2016
Introduced: 9 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-6888 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
qemu-guest-agent
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent
package and not the qemu-guest-agent
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
Integer overflow in the net_tx_pkt_init function in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via the maximum fragmentation count, which triggers an unchecked multiplication and NULL pointer dereference.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92556
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=47882fa4975bf0b58dd74474329fdd7154e8f04c
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6888
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03176.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/19/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/19/6
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47882fa4975bf0b58dd74474329fdd7154e8f04c