Bug 1318727 - qemu-kvm: Integer overflow in SDL when creating too wide screen
Summary: qemu-kvm: Integer overflow in SDL when creating too wide screen
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1330512 1330513
Blocks: 1318730
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Reported: 2016-03-17 15:34 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:49:50 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-03-17 15:34:46 UTC 
Qemu emulator built with the VGA emulator support is vulnerable to an integer overflow issue. It could occur while creating wide screen with large resolutions.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu instance on the host, resulting in DoS.

Upstream fix:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg03799.html
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-03-17 15:35:02 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Zuozhi Fzz (Alibaba Inc.)
Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2016-04-26 11:37:35 UTC 
Statement:

This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently
planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
Comment 4 Prasad Pandit 2016-04-26 11:47:26 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1330513]
Comment 5 Prasad Pandit 2016-04-26 11:47:42 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1330512]
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-05-12 07:26:52 UTC 
xen-4.5.3-3.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-05-16 16:19:57 UTC 
xen-4.6.1-8.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-05-28 23:21:55 UTC 
xen-4.5.3-5.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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