Bug 1733414

Summary: qemu: Out of bounds write in the PBP bitmap via virtio-balloon
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: amit, areis, bdettelb, berrange, cfergeau, dbecker, dwmw2, itamar, jen, jferlan, jjoyce, jschluet, jschorr, kbasil, knoel, lhh, lkundrak, lpeer, mburns, mkenneth, mrezanin, mst, pbonzini, rbalakri, ribarry, rjones, sclewis, security-response-team, slinaber, virt-maint, virt-maint
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-07-26 03:48:17 UTC
A flaw was found in qemu v4.0 and newer. An out of bounds write in the PBP bitmap can be trigged by inflating/deflating virtio-balloon causing qemu to crash.

Upstream patch:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg05670.html