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CVE-2017-2630: Buffer Overflow

First published: Fri Feb 03 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/qemu-kvm-rhev<10:2.9.0-14.el7
10:2.9.0-14.el7
redhat/qemu<2.9
2.9
QEMU KVM<2.9

Remedy

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/2

Remedy

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2630

Remedy

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg01246.html

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