Bug 668589 (CVE-2011-0011)

Summary: CVE-2011-0011 qemu-kvm: Setting VNC password to empty string silently disables all authentication
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: lcapitulino, mkenneth, tburke, virt-maint, vkrizan, wnefal+redhatbugzilla, zamsden
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Fix to vnc password semantics none

Description Petr Matousek 2011-01-10 20:45:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
The semantics of the ',password' option to -vnc are that it enables the VNC auth scheme. If the VNC server password is unset or empty string, all attempts to authenticate with the server will be explicitly blocked.

This allows applications to enable and selectively allow access for a period of time, before clearing the password again to prevent further access.

Upstream changes have introduced a flaw by disabling all authentication when the password was cleared with upstream commit [1].

[1] http://www.qemu.com/qemu.git/commit/?id=52c18be9e99dabe295321153fda7fce9f76647ac
Comment 4 Neil Wilson 2011-01-28 18:02:42 UTC 
Created attachment 475841 [details]
Fix to vnc password semantics

This patch corrects the flaw in qemu-kvm

Please see http://launchpad.net/bugs/697197 for testing performed.
Comment 5 Petr Matousek 2011-02-28 11:09:05 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 680886]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-10 20:11:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0345 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0345.html
Comment 7 Petr Matousek 2012-03-30 17:33:58 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect versions of kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.