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Bug 616636 (CVE-2017-8112)

Summary: <app-emulation/qemu-2.9.0-r1: scsi: vmw_pvscsi: infinite loop in pvscsi_log2
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: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445621
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 616874    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-04-26 08:02:26 UTC
From ${URL} :

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus
emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue.
It could occur while initialising SCSI message ring buffer in pvscsi_log2().

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to consume host cpu cycles
or crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

Upstream patch:
---------------
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04578.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 2017-04-29 21:33:27 UTC
commit ea97b0c7b7466e74a67ad714b07509c752f5870c
Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 29 16:01:30 2017 -0500

    app-emulation/qemu: Various security patches for 2.9.0
    
    bug 616636, CVE-2017-8112
    bug 616870 [1]
    bug 616872 [2]
    bug 616874 [1]
    
    [1] minor change, queued upstream, no CVE assigned yet
    [2] queued upstream, no CVE assigned yet
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.2
Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-06-06 06:49:54 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201706-03 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
by GLSA coordinator Yury German (BlueKnight).