Bug 1658963 (CVE-2018-20123) - CVE-2018-20123 QEMU: pvrdma: memory leakage in device hotplug
Summary: CVE-2018-20123 QEMU: pvrdma: memory leakage in device hotplug
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-20123
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: 1658964
Blocks: 1649132
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Reported: 2018-12-13 09:16 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-12-20 05:07:43 UTC
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Description Prasad Pandit 2018-12-13 09:16:34 UTC 
A memory leakage issue was found in the way QEMU initialised its
VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. In pvrdma_realize() routine, if
an error occurred, it did not release memory resources allocated
to various objects.

A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory,
resulting in DoS for host.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg02817.html

Reference:
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  -> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/12/13/4
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2018-12-13 09:16:37 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Li Qiang
Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2018-12-13 09:16:56 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1658964]
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