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Date: Fri,  9 Sep 2016 10:41:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, luodalongde@...il.com, liqiang6-s@....cn
Subject: Re: CVE Request Qemu: vmware_vga: OOB stack memory access when processing svga command

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> Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMware-SVGA "chipset" emulation support is
> vulnerable to an OOB stack memory write issue. It could occur while processing
> VGA commands in 'vmsvga_fifo_run' routine.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process
> resulting in DoS.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg01764.html

>> When processing svga command DEFINE_CURSOR in vmsvga_fifo_run,
>> the computed BITMAP and PIXMAP size are checked against the
>> 'cursor.mask[]' and 'cursor.image[]' array sizes in bytes.
>> Correct these checks to avoid OOB memory access.

Use CVE-2016-7170.

This is not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=hw/display/vmware_vga.c but
that may be an expected place for a later update.

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