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Bug 1594054 (CVE-2018-12617) - CVE-2018-12617 Qemu: qemu-guest-agent: Integer overflow causes segmentation fault in qmp_guest_file_read()
Summary: CVE-2018-12617 Qemu: qemu-guest-agent: Integer overflow causes segmentation f...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-12617
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1594055 1594056 1639975 1644530 1645015 1645016 1645018
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-06-22 00:47 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-10-25 09:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-25 09:45:46 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-06-22 00:47:19 UTC 
The QEMU Guest Agent in QEMU is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the 
qmp_guest_file_read(). An attacker could exploit this by sending a crafted QMP 
command (including guest-file-read with a large count value) to the agent via 
the listening socket to trigger a g_malloc() call with a large memory chunk 
resulting in a segmentation fault.

A user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU guest agent process resulting in DoS.

Upstream Patch:
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  -> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=141b197408ab398c4f474ac1a728ab316e921f2b

References:
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  -> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/17/4
  -> https://gist.github.com/fakhrizulkifli/c7740d28efa07dafee66d4da5d857ef6
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-06-22 00:48:20 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1594055]
Comment 3 Joshua Padman 2018-07-25 11:45:45 UTC 
The builds of qemu-kvm-rhev used by OpenStack do not have building of the guest agent enabled. Therefore the vulnerable code is not built and shipper to customers.
Comment 5 Prasad Pandit 2018-10-17 04:15:39 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Fakhri Zulkifli
Comment 15 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 2020-04-16 06:34:31 UTC 
This issue is fixed by upstream commits 5d3586b834..1329651fb4:

- 1329651fb4 qga: Restrict guest-file-read count to 48 MB to avoid crashes
- ead83a136d qga: Extract qmp_guest_file_read() to common commands.c
- 5d3586b834 qga: Extract guest_file_handle_find() to commands-common.h
Comment 16 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 2020-04-16 06:35:30 UTC 
This issue is fixed by upstream commits 5d3586b834..1329651fb4:

- 5d3586b834 qga: Extract guest_file_handle_find() to commands-common.h
- ead83a136d qga: Extract qmp_guest_file_read() to common commands.c
- 1329651fb4 qga: Restrict guest-file-read count to 48 MB to avoid crashes
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