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Subject: [oss-security] CVE-2017-8112 Qemu: scsi: vmw_pvscsi: infinite loop in pvscsi_log2
From: P J P <ppandit () redhat ! com>
Date: 2017-04-26 7:34:02
Message-ID: alpine.LFD.2.20.1704261248200.8206 () wniryva
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Hello,
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus
emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur
while initialising SCSI message ring buffer in pvscsi_ring_init_msg().
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to consume host cpu cycles
or crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
Upstream patch:
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-> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04578.html
Reference:
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-> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445621
This issue was independently reported by Li Qiang of Qihoo 360 Gear
Team and YY Z(CC'd).
'CVE-2017-8112' assigned via -> http://cveform.mitre.org/
Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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