Re: CVE request Qemu: acpi: heap based buffer overrun during VM migration

[cve-assign () mitre org]

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> Qemu emulator built with the Q35 chipset based pc system emulator is
> vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow. It occurs during VM guest
> migration, as more(16 bytes) data is moved into allocated(8 bytes) memory
> area.
>
> A privileged guest user could use this issue to corrupt the VM guest image,
> potentially leading to a DoS. This issue affects q35 machine types.
>
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d9a3b33d2c9f996537b7f1d0246dee2d0120cefb
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283722

> > acpi: fix buffer overrun on migration
> >
> > ich calls acpi_gpe_init with length ICH9_PMIO_GPE0_LEN so
> > ICH9_PMIO_GPE0_LEN/2 bytes are allocated, but then the full
> > ICH9_PMIO_GPE0_LEN bytes are migrated.
> >
> > As a quick work-around, allocate twice the memory.

> > hw/acpi/core.c
> > acpi_gpe_init

Use CVE-2015-8666.

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