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CVE-2020-29443 QEMU: ide: atapi: OOB access while processing read commands


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:48:07 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the ATAPI Emulator of QEMU. It occurs while processing ATAPI read command if logical block address(LBA) is set to an invalid value. A guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg04255.html
  -> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=813212288970c39b1800f63e83ac6e96588095c6

This issue was reported by Wenxiang Qian of Tencent Blade Team.

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