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List:       oss-security
Subject:    [oss-security] Re: CVE request Qemu net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check
From:       cve-assign () mitre ! org
Date:       2015-12-29 6:33:52
Message-ID: 20151229063352.8963134E043 () smtpvbsrv1 ! mitre ! org
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> Qemu emulator built with the Rocker switch emulation support is vulnerable to
> an off-by-one error. It happens while processing transmit(tx) descriptors in
> 'tx_consume' routine, if a descriptor was to have more than allowed
> (ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16) fragments.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause memory leakage on
> the host or crash the Qemu process instance resulting in DoS issue.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04629.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286971

>> While processing transmit(tx) descriptors in 'tx_consume' routine
>> the switch emulator suffers from an off-by-one error, if a
>> descriptor was to have more than allowed(ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16)
>> fragments. Fix an incorrect bounds check to avoid it.

Use CVE-2015-8701.

This is not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=hw/net/rocker/rocker.c but
that may be an expected place for a later update.

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