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qemu-kvm: guest crashes

Package(s):

qemu-kvm

CVE #(s):

Created:

December 4, 2009

Updated:

December 9, 2009

Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory: It was discovered that QEMU did not properly setup the virtio networking features available to its guests. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash QEMU guests which use virtio networking on Linux kernels earlier than 2.6.26.

Alerts:

Ubuntu

USN-863-1

2009-12-03

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