CVE Request Qemu: scsi: mptsas: invalid memory access while building configuration pages

[P J P <ppandit () redhat com>]

  Hello,

Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the LSI SAS1068 Host Bus emulation support, is 
vulnerable to an invalid memory access issue. It could occur while building 
configuration page headers in 'mptsas_config_manufacturing_1'.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process 
on the host, resulting in DoS.

Upstream patches:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg04295.html
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg04296.html

This issue was reported by Victor V of the Marvel Team, 360.cn Inc.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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