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Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 14:24:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, liqiang6-s@....cn
Subject: Re: CVE Request Qemu: scsi: megasas: out-of-bounds write while setting controller properties

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> Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter
> emulation support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds write access issue. It
> could occur while processing MegaRAID Firmware Interface(MFI) command to set
> controller properties in 'megasas_dcmd_set_properties'.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process
> on the host resulting in DoS.

> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04340.html

>> When setting MegaRAID SAS controller properties via MegaRAID
>> Firmware Interface(MFI) commands, a user supplied size parameter
>> is used to set property value. Use appropriate size value to avoid
>> OOB access issues.

Use CVE-2016-5106.

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

Note that this issue was originally disputed in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04410.html
but the dispute was later resolved, and
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04340.html
stands as the final vulnerability description.

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