oss-security - CVE Request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: infinite loop when processing IO requests

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:05:36 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: liqiang6-s@....cn
Subject: CVE Request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: infinite loop when processing IO
 requests

   Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus 
emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur 
while processing SCSI IO requests.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process 
resulting in DoS.

Upstream patch:
---------------
   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03609.html

Reference:
----------
   -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376731

This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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