Bug 1997184 (CVE-2021-3735) - CVE-2021-3735 QEMU: ahci: deadlock issue leads to denial of service
Summary: CVE-2021-3735 QEMU: ahci: deadlock issue leads to denial of service
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2021-3735
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 1997213 1997214 1997215 1997216 1997217 1997218
Blocks: 1981414
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Reported: 2021-08-24 14:59 UTC by Mauro Matteo Cascella
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:29 UTC (History)
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A deadlock issue was found in the AHCI controller device of QEMU. It occurs on a software reset (ahci_reset_port) while handling a host-to-device Register FIS (Frame Information Structure) packet from the guest. A privileged user inside the guest could use this flaw to hang the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Description Mauro Matteo Cascella 2021-08-24 14:59:07 UTC 
A deadlock issue was found in the AHCI controller device (ich9-ahci) of QEMU while handling a host-to-device Register FIS (Frame Information Structure) packet from the guest. The bug is triggered on a software reset (ahci_reset_port) in the handle_reg_h2d_fis() function [1]. A privileged user inside the guest could use this flaw to hang the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition.

[1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/v6.1.0-rc4/hw/ide/ahci.c#L1215
Comment 2 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2021-08-24 16:05:53 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1997217]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1997215]
Comment 4 Salvatore Bonaccorso 2021-09-03 13:12:36 UTC 
Has this issue been forwarde/notified to upstream?
Comment 5 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2021-09-03 16:38:39 UTC 
In reply to comment #4:
> Has this issue been forwarde/notified to upstream?

Yes, this was reported via qemu-security mailing list. John Snow (IDE maintainer) is aware of it. John, do you happen to have any updates on this?
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