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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:40:41 -0400
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: 9pfs: memory leakage when creating extended attribute

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> Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9
> File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to memory leakage issue. It could
> occur while creating extended attribute via 'Txattrcreate' message.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to leak host memory, thus
> affecting other services on the host and/or potentially crash the Qemu process
> on the host.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg01861.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389550
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=ff55e94d23ae94c8628b0115320157c763eb3e06

>> The 'fs.xattr.value' field in V9fsFidState object doesn't consider the
>> situation that this field has been allocated previously. Every time, it
>> will be allocated directly.

Use CVE-2016-9102.

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