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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:26:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, liqiang6-s@....cn
Subject: Re: CVE request Qemu: scsi: mptsas: OOB access when freeing MPTSASRequest object

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> Quick emulator(Qemu) built with the LSI SAS1068 Host Bus emulation support, is
> vulnerable to an invalid memory access issue. It could occur while processing
> scsi io requests in mptsas_process_scsi_io_request.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process
> instance on the host resulting in DoS.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03604.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376776
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=670e56d3ed2918b3861d9216f2c0540d9e9ae0d5

>> scsi: mptsas: use g_new0 to allocate MPTSASRequest object
>> 
>> When processing IO request in mptsas, it uses g_new to allocate
>> a 'req' object. If an error occurs before 'req->sreq' is
>> allocated, It could lead to an OOB write in mptsas_free_request
>> function. Use g_new0 to avoid it.

Use CVE-2016-7423.

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