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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:13:39 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, luodalongde@...il.com
Subject: Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakage
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> Qemu emulator built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is
> vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw. It occurs when a guest repeatedly tries
> to activate the vmxnet3 device.
>
> A privileged guest user could use this flaw to leak host memory, resulting in
> DoS on the host.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html
>> Vmxnet3 device emulator does not check if the device is active
>> before activating it, also it did not free the transmit & receive
>> buffers while deactivating the device, thus resulting in memory
>> leakage on the host. This patch fixes both these issues to avoid
>> host memory leakage.
This is not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=hw/net/vmxnet3.c but that
may be an expected place for a later update.
"does not check if the device is active before activating it" seems to
be similar to a CWE-372 ("Incomplete Internal State Distinction")
issue. Use CVE-2015-8567 for this aspect of the report.
"did not free the transmit & receive buffers while deactivating" seems
to be similar to a CWE-772 ("Missing Release of Resource after
Effective Lifetime") issue. Use CVE-2015-8568 for this aspect of the
report.
>> I've added a check in vmxnet3_deactivate_device() to avoid double free.
We think this may mean that the double free existed only in an early
version of the patch, and did not exist in any shipped QEMU code.
There is no CVE ID for the double free.
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