Bug 1199572 (CVE-2015-1779) - CVE-2015-1779 qemu: vnc: insufficient resource limiting in VNC websockets decoder
Summary: CVE-2015-1779 qemu: vnc: insufficient resource limiting in VNC websockets dec...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-1779
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1205050 1205051 1206497 1206498 1206499
Blocks: 1199575
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-06 16:20 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2023-05-12 07:35 UTC (History)
27 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
It was found that the QEMU's websocket frame decoder processed incoming frames without limiting resources used to process the header and the payload. An attacker able to access a guest's VNC console could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service on the host by exhausting all available memory and CPU.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-10-27 09:17:53 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
0001-CVE-2015-1779-incrementally-decode-websocket-frames.patch (8.06 KB, text/plain)
2015-03-06 16:22 UTC, Martin Prpič
no flags Details
0002-CVE-2015-1779-limit-size-of-HTTP-headers-from-websoc.patch (2.22 KB, text/plain)
2015-03-06 16:22 UTC, Martin Prpič
no flags Details
0001-CVE-2015-1779-incrementally-decode-websocket-frames.patch (8.03 KB, text/plain)
2015-03-10 09:24 UTC, Martin Prpič
no flags Details
0002-CVE-2015-1779-limit-size-of-HTTP-headers-from-websoc.patch (2.22 KB, text/plain)
2015-03-10 09:24 UTC, Martin Prpič
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1931 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security update 2015-10-27 01:22:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1943 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: qemu-kvm security update 2015-10-27 12:50:32 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2015-03-06 16:20:32 UTC
It was found that the QEMU's websocket frame decoder processed incoming frames without limiting resources used to process the header and payload. An attacker able to access a guest's VNC console could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service on the host by exhausting all available memory and CPU.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Daniel P. Berrange of Red Hat.

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-03-06 16:22:03 UTC
Created attachment 998931 [details]
0001-CVE-2015-1779-incrementally-decode-websocket-frames.patch

Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-03-06 16:22:29 UTC
Created attachment 998932 [details]
0002-CVE-2015-1779-limit-size-of-HTTP-headers-from-websoc.patch

Comment 4 Martin Prpič 2015-03-10 09:24:12 UTC
Created attachment 999785 [details]
0001-CVE-2015-1779-incrementally-decode-websocket-frames.patch

Comment 5 Martin Prpič 2015-03-10 09:24:41 UTC
Created attachment 999786 [details]
0002-CVE-2015-1779-limit-size-of-HTTP-headers-from-websoc.patch

Comment 6 Petr Matousek 2015-03-19 16:04:39 UTC
Statement:

This issue did not affect the kvm and qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Comment 7 Daniel Berrangé 2015-03-23 23:09:31 UTC
Patches now posted publically upstream at:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04894.html

Comment 8 Petr Matousek 2015-03-24 07:18:16 UTC
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1205051]

Comment 11 Petr Matousek 2015-04-09 14:28:14 UTC
Upstream patches:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=a2bebfd6e09d
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=2cdb5e142fb93

Please note that the first patch committed to QEMU project git is slightly different than the proposed patches (includes fix for a regression).

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2015-04-21 18:50:47 UTC
qemu-2.3.0-0.3.rc2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-26 21:23:06 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-7

Via RHSA-2015:1931 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1931.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-27 08:50:44 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1943 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1943.html


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