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TITLE:
KVM qemu-kvm "ext4_fill_flex_info()" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48645

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-04-09

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KVM qemu-kvm, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the
"ext4_fill_flex_info()" function in fs/ext4/super.c when mounting a
file system and can be exploited to cause a division by zero.

NOTE: This is caused due to an incomplete fix for vulnerability #2
in:
SA37658

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.

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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm.git;a=commit;h=d50f2ab6f050311dbf7b8f5501b25f0bf64a439b

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EXPLOIT:
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