Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in QXL Virtual GPU, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
QXL Virtual GPU SPICE Connection Handling Denial of Service
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA52021
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RELEASE DATE:
2013-01-31
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in QXL Virtual GPU, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the driver, which
blocks other threads when handling SPICE connection breakups. This
can be exploited to make the guest temporarily unavailable or cause a
crash.
Successful exploitation requires the ability to initiate a SPICE
connection.
The vulnerability is reported in version 0.1.0. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906032
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/30/3
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