full-disclosure - Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2607-1] qemu-kvm security update

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Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 15:49:50 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: jason <sword23@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2607-1] qemu-kvm security
	update

* jason:

> Could this be exploitable from within the guest vm?  Eg could I execute
> commands on the hypervisor host as root by generating a malicious packet to
> attack the e1000 driver from within the guest?

Yes, but at this point, you could directly patch the guest memory, so
it's not a real attack.

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