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CVE-2019-12155 QEMU: qxl: null pointer dereference while releasing spice resources


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:38:24 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

A null pointer dereference issue was found the QXL VGA card emulator of QEMU. It could occur while releasing resources allocated for a SPICE server thread in interface_release_resources().

A guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS scenario.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d52680fc932efb8a2f334cc6993e705ed1e31e99

This issue was reported by Sergej Schumilo, Cornelius Aschermann and Simon Wrner of Ruhr University Bochum.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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