Security Bulletin: PowerKVM is affected by a Qemu vulnerability (CVE-2015-1779)

Summary PowerKVM is vulnerable to Qemu vulnerability CVE-2015-1779. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-1779 DESCRIPTION: QEMU is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when processing incoming frames by the websocket frame decoder. A remote attacker from within the local network...

CVE-2015-1779: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The VNC websocket frame decoder in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory and CPU consumption via a large 1 websocket payload or 2 HTTP headers section...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available fr...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : qemu (MDVSA-2015:210)

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities : A denial of service flaw was found in the way QEMU handled malformed Physical Region Descriptor Table PRDT data sent to the host's IDE and/or AHCI controller emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the system rhbz1204919...

PT-2015-2970

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the VNC websocket frame decoder in QEMU, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved through a large websocket payload or a large HTT...

netty: DoS via memory exhaustion during data aggregation

A flaw was found in the WebSocket08FrameDecoder implementation that could allow a remote attacker to trigger an Out Of Memory Exception by issuing a series of TextWebSocketFrame and ContinuationWebSocketFrames. Depending on the server configuration, this could lead to a denial of service...