Vigil@nce - OVMF: denial of service via DNS Header Size
May 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: internet server.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 12/03/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via DNS Header Size of OVMF,
in order to trigger a denial of service.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OVMF-denial-of-service-via-DNS-Header-Size-28716