oss-security - CVE request Qemu: memory leakage in v9fs

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1610281505100.17055@wniryva>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:06:26 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@....cn>
Subject: CVE request Qemu: memory leakage in v9fs_link

   Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 
File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could 
occur when calling v9fs_link call.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to leak the host memory 
bytes resulting in DoS for other services.

Upstream patches:
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   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02608.html

Reference:
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   -> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup

This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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