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LIN8-5369 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2016-6888

Created: Dec 15, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 5, 2017
Found In Version: 8.0.0.11
Fix Version: 8.0.0.13
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-6888

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