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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:02:32 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Matt Delco <delco@...omium.org>
Subject: CVE-2019-14821 Kernel: KVM: OOB memory access via mmio ring buffer
Hello,
An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM
hypervisor implements Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on a MMIO
ring buffer 'struct kvm_coalesced_mmio' object, wherein write indices
'ring->first' and 'ring->last' value could be supplied by a host user-space
process.
An unprivileged host user/process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use
this flaw to crash the host kernel resulting in DoS OR potentially escalate
privileges on the system.
Upstream patch:
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-> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?id=b60fe990c6b07ef6d4df67bc0530c7c90a62623a
This issue was reported by Matt Delco of Google Inc.
Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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