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CVE-2018-1064: qemu: avoid denial of service reading from QEMU guest agent

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From: =?utf-8?b?IkRhbmllbCBQLiBCZXJyYW5nw6ki?= <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 14:55:26 +0000
Subject: CVE-2018-1064: qemu: avoid denial of service reading from QEMU guest
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---
src/qemu/qemu_agent.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_agent.c b/src/qemu/qemu_agent.c
index 0f36054..89183c3 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_agent.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_agent.c
@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ VIR_LOG_INIT("qemu.qemu_agent");
#define DEBUG_IO 0
#define DEBUG_RAW_IO 0
+/* We read from QEMU until seeing a \r\n pair to indicate a
+ * completed reply or event. To avoid memory denial-of-service
+ * though, we must have a size limit on amount of data we
+ * buffer. 10 MB is large enough that it ought to cope with
+ * normal QEMU replies, and small enough that we're not
+ * consuming unreasonable mem.
+ */
+#define QEMU_AGENT_MAX_RESPONSE (10 * 1024 * 1024)
+
/* When you are the first to uncomment this,
* don't forget to uncomment the corresponding
* part in qemuAgentIOProcessEvent as well.
@@ -535,6 +544,12 @@ qemuAgentIORead(qemuAgentPtr mon)
int ret = 0;
if (avail < 1024) {
+ if (mon->bufferLength >= QEMU_AGENT_MAX_RESPONSE) {
+ virReportSystemError(ERANGE,
+ _("No complete agent response found in %d bytes"),
+ QEMU_AGENT_MAX_RESPONSE);
+ return -1;
+ }
if (VIR_REALLOC_N(mon->buffer,
mon->bufferLength + 1024) < 0)
return -1;
......@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ debian/apparmor_profiles_local_include.patch
Set-defaults-for-zfs-tools.patch
Pass-GPG_TTY-env-var-to-the-ssh-binary.patch
apparmor-Allow-virt-aa-helper-to-access-the-name-service-.patch
security/CVE-2018-1064-qemu-avoid-denial-of-service-reading-from-Q.patch
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