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Message-ID: <20150625095432.GH18896@dhcp-25-225.brq.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:54:33 +0200
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
To: cve-assign@...re.org
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel - kvm: x86: out-of-bounds memory
 access in pit_ioport_read function

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:47:26AM -0400, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> > Linux kernel versions before
> > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ee73f656
> > had the same problem as QEMU/CVE-2015-3214.
> 
> CVE-2015-3214 is also the correct CVE ID for this vulnerability in the
> Linux kernel. pit_ioport_read in the Linux kernel and pit_ioport_read
> in QEMU are not independent implementations.

Doesn't this fall under different code base? These are two completely
different projects. You can use KVM without using QEMU and vice versa.

-- 
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Product Security
PGP: 0xC44977CA 8107 AF16 A416 F9AF 18F3  D874 3E78 6F42 C449 77CA

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