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Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 15:40:50 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@...hat.com>
Subject: CVE-2014-3672 libvirt: DoS via excessive logging
Hello,
A while back, Mr Andrew Sorensen reported a Qemu logging issue wherein Libvirt
OR Xen directed 'stderr' of Qemu to a log file on the host.
This can be easily exploited by a user inside guest to flood the log file with
endless messages, resulting in a DoS situation on the host, affecting other
services and guests alike.
'CVE-2014-3672' was assigned to it by Red Hat Inc.
Until recently there was no remedy in sight, but quoting Mr Daniel P Berrange
of libvirt
"Since libvirt version 1.3.3, libvirt has 'virtlogd' daemon running. The
QEMU stdout/err are no longer connected directly to a file on disk, instead
they go to a pipe connected to virtlogd. virtlogd only allows 128 kb of
data to be written before rolling over the logs, and only keeps 3 backups,
so there is no longer an uncontrolled denial of service.
With QEMU 2.6, it is further possible to use virtlogd in association with
QEMU serial ports that need to log to a file, for the same reason."
Upstream patch:
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-> https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=0d968ad715475a1660779bcdd2c5b38ad63db4cf
Note: It's probably not feasible to back port this solution to older versions.
Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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