Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting qemu package, versions <2.1+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.17% (54th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-531021
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 23 Jan 2020
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2015-5239 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 2.1+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0 allows attachers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a CLIENT_CUT_TEXT message, which triggers an infinite loop.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5239
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.html
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/f9a70e79391f6d7c2a912d785239ee8effc1922d
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00011.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/02/7
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-5239
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1188-security-advisory-14