Bug 733597

Summary: sending a bad keycode to guest can crash libvirt
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.2CC: dyuan, mzhan, rwu, vbian, yupzhang
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.9.4-6.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Daniel Veillard 2011-08-26 07:43:38 UTC
Description of problem:
Sending a bad keycode with virsh send-key can cause segmentation fault in libvirt.

% virsh send-key --codeset win32 12
   error: End of file while reading data: Input/output error

This is caused by overrun at scanning keycode array.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-August/msg00942.html

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How reproducible:
seems systematic

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Comment 1 Daniel Veillard 2011-08-26 07:45:13 UTC
Upstream patch 9f5afc732c5f5b790f1c1006d2d97adb3fa7bb30

Daniel

Comment 3 Vivian Bian 2011-08-26 08:36:12 UTC
reproduced this bug with libvirt-0.9.4-5 

Steps
[root@dhcp-93-106 pkgs]# virsh send-key rhel6 --codeset win32 12
error: End of file while reading data: Input/output error

[root@dhcp-93-106 pkgs]# virsh list
error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor
error: no valid connection
error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused

[root@dhcp-93-106 pkgs]# service libvirtd status
libvirtd dead but pid file exists

Comment 5 dyuan 2011-08-30 09:46:47 UTC
Verified this bug PASS with libvirt-0.9.4-6.el6.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 11:27:29 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1513.html