7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
qemu-kvm is vulnerable to denial of service. A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU’s NE2000 NIC emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the network. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance (denial of service) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host.
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rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1896.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1923.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1924.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1925.html
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access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1923
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bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256672
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rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1896.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1188-security-advisory-14