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xorg-x11-drv-qxl: denial of service

Package(s):xorg-x11-drv-qxl CVE #(s):CVE-2013-0241
Created:February 1, 2013 Updated:February 7, 2013
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

A flaw was found in the way the host's qemu-kvm qxl driver and the guest's X.Org qxl driver interacted when a SPICE connection terminated. A user able to initiate a SPICE connection to a guest could use this flaw to make the guest temporarily unavailable or, potentially (if the sysctl kernel.softlockup_panic variable was set to "1" in the guest), crash the guest. (CVE-2013-0241)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0218-01 2013-01-31
CentOS CESA-2013:0218 2013-02-01
Oracle ELSA-2013-0218 2013-02-01
Scientific Linux SL-xorg-20130201 2013-02-01
Ubuntu USN-1714-1 2013-02-05
Mageia MGASA-2013-0036 2013-02-06

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