Re: CVE request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: out-of-bounds access issue in pvsci_ring_init_msg/data routines

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> Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus
> emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur
> while processing SCSI commands 'PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_RINGS' or
> 'PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_MSG_RING'.
>
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process
> resulting in DoS.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg03774.html

> > Vmware Paravirtual SCSI emulation uses command descriptors to
> > process SCSI commands. These descriptors come with their ring
> > buffers. A guest could set the ring buffer size to an arbitrary
> > value leading to OOB access issue. Add check to avoid it.

Use CVE-2016-4952.

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

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