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Message-Id: <20150806143203.5F2A06C00F1@smtpvmsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Thu,  6 Aug 2015 10:32:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: Qemu: buffer overflow in virtio-serial

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> https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/7882080388be5088e72c425b02223c02e6cb4295
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg05458.html

> Don't assume a specific layout for control messages.

> hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c

> send_control_msg

> -    memcpy(elem.in_sg[0].iov_base, buf, len);
> +    /* TODO: detect a buffer that's too short, set NEEDS_RESET */
> +    iov_from_buf(elem.in_sg, elem.in_num, 0, buf, len);

> Qemu emulator built with the virtio-serial vmchannel support is vulnerable to
> a buffer overflow issue. It could occur while exchanging virtio control
> messages between guest & the host.
> 
> A malicious guest could use this flaw to corrupt few bytes of Qemu memory
> area, potentially crashing the Qemu process.

Use CVE-2015-5745.

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