Bug 1636777 (CVE-2018-17963)

Summary: CVE-2018-17963 QEMU: net: ignore packets with large size
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: amit, apevec, areis, berrange, cfergeau, chrisw, dwmw2, itamar, jen, jforbes, jjoyce, jschluet, kbasil, knoel, lhh, lpeer, markmc, m.a.young, mburns, mkenneth, mrezanin, mst, pbonzini, rbalakri, rbryant, rjones, robinlee.sysu, sclewis, slinaber, tdecacqu, virt-maint, virt-maint
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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A potential integer overflow issue was found in the networking back-end of QEMU. It could occur while receiving packets, because it accepted packets with large size value. Such overflow could lead to OOB buffer access issue. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS.
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:19:58 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1636778, 1636779, 1636780, 1636781, 1636782, 1636783, 1636784, 1636785, 1636786, 1636787, 1636788, 1636789, 1636790    
Bug Blocks: 1581014    

Description Prasad Pandit 2018-10-07 15:51:22 UTC
A potential integer overflow issue was found in the QEMU emulator. It could occur when a packet with large packet size is accepted and processed.
A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

Upstream fix:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg03267.html
  -> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=25c01bd19d0e4b66f357618aeefda1ef7a41e21a

Reference:
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  -> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/08/1

Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2018-10-07 15:51:25 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Daniel Shapira (Twistlock)

Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2018-10-07 15:59:21 UTC
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1636782]


Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1636783]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:23:22 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2166 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2166

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 13:19:58 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-17963

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-09 00:48:26 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)
  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens)
  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky)

Via RHSA-2019:2425 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2425

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-22 09:18:27 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3

Via RHSA-2019:2553 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2553