Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Fix CVE-2008-0928 - insufficient block device address range checking

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 06:19:36PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> From: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32>
> 
> This is based on an old patch commited by Aurelien Jarno whose commit
> message was:
> 
>   Fix CVE-2008-0928 - insufficient block device address range checking
> 
>   Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block device
>   read or write requests, which allows guest host users with root
>   privileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine.
> 
> In addition to the changes done by the previous patch, this patch changes
> total_sectors to total_bytes, so that the range checking works for
> backing devices that are not sector-based (for example, when block-qcow
> is reading the backing file). This was done to avoid bugs such as:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485148
> 

I don't think it addresses comments from Fabrice Bellard [1], that was
the primarily reason why this patch has been reverted [2]. He asked
that the tests are done in block-{qcow,qcow2,vmdk}.c.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-03/msg00128.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-03/msg00132.html

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