Gentoo Websites Logo
Go to: Gentoo Home Documentation Forums Lists Bugs Planet Store Wiki Get Gentoo!

Bug 594520 (CVE-2016-7466)

Summary: <app-emulation/qemu-2.7.0-r4: usb: xhci memory leakage during device unplug (CVE-2016-7466)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: qemu+disabled
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/19/8
Whiteboard: B4 [glsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 594368    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-09-20 14:32:04 UTC
From ${URL} :

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the USB xHCI controller emulation support is 
vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while doing a USB 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 on the host 
and/or potentially crash the Qemu process instance on the host.

Upstream patch:
---------------
   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg02773.html




@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev 2016-09-27 02:18:15 UTC
Stabilization on #594368

commit 153ded7835ad0fbd8ec8a7552f90c973d1c2dd28
Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 26 21:01:29 2016 -0500

    app-emulation/qemu: security fixes, bug #594520, bug #594368
    
      CVE-2016-7466.patch # bug 594520
      CVE-2016-7423.patch # bug 594368
Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2016-11-18 23:12:23 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201611-11 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).