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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:52:06 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Li Qiang <liq3ea@....com>
Subject: CVE-2018-20125 QEMU: pvrdma: null dereference or excessive memory
allocation when creating QP/CQ
Hello,
A Null pointer dereference issue was found in QEMU's implementation of
VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. It could occur while creating CQ/QP ring
objects in pvrdma_ring_init() routine.
A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash QEMU process or allocate
excessive memory on host resulting in DoS.
Upstream patch:
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-> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg02823.html
This issue was reported by Li Qiang.
Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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