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CVE-2017-9524
high
Description
The qemu-nbd server in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the Network Block Device (NBD) Server support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and server crash) by leveraging failure to ensure that all initialization occurs before talking to a client in the nbd_negotiate function.
References
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg02321.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg06240.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1682
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1681
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99011