oss-security - CVE request Qemu: serial: host memory leakage in 16550A UART emulation

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:37:45 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@....cn>
Subject: CVE request Qemu: serial: host memory leakage in 16550A UART
 emulation

   Hello,

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the 16550A UART serial device emulation 
support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while doing a 
device unplug operation; Doing so repeatedly would result in leaking host 
memory, affecting other services on the host.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause a DoS and/or 
potentially crash the Qemu process on the host.

Upstream patch:
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   -> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg01945.html

Reference:
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   -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416157

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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