Bug 957155 (CVE-2013-2016) - CVE-2013-2016 qemu: virtio: out-of-bounds config space access
Summary: CVE-2013-2016 qemu: virtio: out-of-bounds config space access
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-2016
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 956953 957161
Blocks: 957189
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Reported: 2013-04-26 13:27 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-11 22:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-24 14:13:48 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2013-04-26 13:27:56 UTC 
A flaw was found in the way qemu validates addresses when guest accesses the config space of a virtio device. If the virtio device has zero/small sized config space, such as virtio-rng, a privileged guest user could use this flaw to access the matching host's qemu address space and thus increase their privileges on the host.

References:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-04/msg05013.html

Proposed upstream patch:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-04/msg05254.html

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This issue was found by Jason Wang of Red Hat.
Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2013-04-26 13:33:56 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue does not affect the versions of kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and qemu-kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2013-04-26 13:35:29 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 957161]
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