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CVE-2008-2382

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2008-12-22
CWE:: CWE-835

Bugzilla:: 477636: CVE-2008-2382 qemu/kvm: remote DoS (infinite loop) via specially-crafted VNC message received by the domain

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The protocol_client_msg function in vnc.c in the VNC server in (1) Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier and (2) KVM kvm-79 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain message.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2382 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of the Xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Last Modified 2018-05-01T13:57:52+00:00

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