CVE-2015-5279 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ne2000_receive function in hw/net/ne2000.c in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to receiving packets.

Reference

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=7aa2bcad0ca837dd6d4bf4fa38a80314b4a6b755 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169036.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167369.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00019.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1896.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1923.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1924.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1925.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3361 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3362 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/15/3 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76746 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033569 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg03984.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01