Bug 1377837 (CVE-2016-7466)

Summary: CVE-2016-7466 Qemu: usb: xhci memory leakage during device unplug
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: ailan, amit.shah, apevec, areis, berrange, cfergeau, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, drjones, dwmw2, gmollett, imammedo, itamar, jen, jjoyce, jschluet, kbasil, knoel, lhh, lpeer, markmc, m.a.young, mkenneth, mrezanin, mst, pbonzini, rbryant, rjones, rkrcmar, sclewis, slong, srevivo, tdecacqu, virt-maint, virt-maint, vkuznets, xen-maint
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A memory-leak flaw was found in the Quick Emulator(QEMU) built with USB xHCI controller emulation support. The flaw could occur while doing a USB-device unplug operation. Unplugging the device repeatedly resulted in leaking host memory, which affected other services on the host. A privileged user inside the guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service on the host or potentially crash the host's QEMU process instance.
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Bug Depends On: 1377838, 1378649, 1378650, 1378651, 1378652, 1378653, 1378654, 1475739    
Bug Blocks: 1377819    

Description Prasad Pandit 2016-09-20 18:17:10 UTC
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:
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   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg02773.html

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/19/8

Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2016-09-20 18:17:49 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Li Qiang (360.cn Inc.)

Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2016-09-20 18:18:56 UTC
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1377838]

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 00:57:04 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)
  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata)
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7
  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)
  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)

Via RHSA-2017:2408 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 04:45:55 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEV 4.X RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-7

Via RHSA-2017:2392 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392