Bug 1615637 (CVE-2018-15746) - CVE-2018-15746 QEMU: seccomp: blacklist is not applied to all threads
Summary: CVE-2018-15746 QEMU: seccomp: blacklist is not applied to all threads
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-15746
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: 1618358 Engineering1618356 1618357 Engineering1618503 Engineering1618504 Engineering1622976 Red Hat1623283 Red Hat1623284 Red Hat1623285 Red Hat1623286 Red Hat1623287 Red Hat1623288
Blocks: Embargoed1615621
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Reported: 2018-08-13 23:04 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-09 01:18:13 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2513 0 None None None 2019-08-15 18:37:31 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2425 0 None None None 2019-08-09 00:48:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3906 0 None None None 2020-09-29 19:44:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3907 0 None None None 2020-09-29 19:46:53 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2018-08-13 23:04:19 UTC 
An issue was found in the way QEMU implements Seccomp sandboxing. In that, all QEMU threads are not bound by the sandbox. A guest user/process maybe be able to use this flaw to invoke prohibited system calls on a host, resulting in guest crash.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg04892.html

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/28/6
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg02289.html
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2018-08-16 13:23:45 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Jann Horn (Google.com)
Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2018-08-16 13:36:06 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1618358]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1618357]
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-09 00:48:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)
  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens)
  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky)

Via RHSA-2019:2425 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2425
Comment 12 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-09 01:18:13 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-15746
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 19:44:15 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:3906 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3906
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 19:44:19 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:3907 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3907
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 19:46:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:3907 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3907
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