CVE-2023-3255

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the inflate_buffer function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service.

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the inflate_buffer function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service.

QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed.

Security Fix(es):

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the inflate_buffer function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service.(CVE-2023-3255)

QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed.

Security Fix(es):

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the inflate_buffer function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service.(CVE-2023-3255)

QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed.

Security Fix(es):

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the inflate_buffer function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service.(CVE-2023-3255)

A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the inflate_buffer function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: e1000e: heap use-after-free in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest() (CVE-2023-3019)
• QEMU: VNC: infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (CVE-2023-3255)
• QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite (CVE-2023-5088)
• QEMU: VNC: NULL pointer dereference in qemu_clipboard_request() (CVE-2023-6683)
• QEMU: am53c974: denial of service due to division by zero (CVE-2023-42467)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

• Fix CVE-2023-3255 (qemu-kvm: VNC inflate_buffer infinite loop) [ELSCVE-57519]
• Fix CVE-2023-6683 (qemu-kvm: VNC clipboard NULL pointer dereference) [ELSCVE-57516]

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to allocate and initialize a huge number of page tables to be used as a ring of descriptors for CQ and async events, potentially leading to an out-of-bounds read and crash of QEMU. (CVE-2023-1544) A DMA reentrancy issue leading to a use-after-free error was found in the e1000e NIC emulation code in QEMU. This issue could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-3019) A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. A wrong exit condition may lead to an infinite loop when inflating an attacker controlled zlib buffer in the inflate_buffer function. This could allow a remote authenticated client who is able to send a clipboard to the VNC server to trigger a denial of service. (CVE-2023-3255) A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot. (CVE-2023-5088) A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages. The qemu_clipboard_request() function can be reached before vnc_server_cut_text_caps() was called and had the chance to initialize the clipboard peer, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This could allow a malicious authenticated VNC client to crash QEMU and trigger a denial of service. (CVE-2023-6683) A stack based buffer overflow was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This issue occurs when flushing TX in the virtio_net_flush_tx function if guest features VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 and VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF are enabled. This could allow a malicious user to overwrite local variables allocated on the stack. Specifically, the out_sg variable could be used to read a part of process memory and send it to the wire, causing an information leak. (CVE-2023-6693) QEMU through 8.0.0 could trigger a division by zero in scsi_disk_reset in hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c because scsi_disk_emulate_mode_select does not prevent s->qdev.blocksize from being 256. This stops QEMU and the guest immediately. (CVE-2023-42467) QEMU before 8.2.0 has an integer underflow, and resultant buffer overflow, via a TI command when an expected non-DMA transfer length is less than the length of the available FIFO data. This occurs in esp_do_nodma in hw/scsi/esp.c because of an underflow of async_len. (CVE-2024-24474) An issue was discovered in QEMU 7.1.0 through 8.2.1. register_vfs in hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c mishandles the situation where a guest writes NumVFs greater than TotalVFs, leading to a buffer overflow in VF implementations. (CVE-2024-26327) An issue was discovered in QEMU 7.1.0 through 8.2.1. register_vfs in hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c does not set NumVFs to PCI_SRIOV_TOTAL_VF, and thus interaction with hw/nvme/ctrl.c is mishandled. (CVE-2024-26328) A double free vulnerability was found in QEMU virtio devices (virtio-gpu, virtio-serial-bus, virtio-crypto), where the mem_reentrancy_guard flag insufficiently protects against DMA reentrancy issues. This issue could allow a malicious privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or allow arbitrary code execution within the context of the QEMU process on the host. (CVE-2024-3446) A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the SDHCI device emulation of QEMU. The bug is triggered when both s->data_count and the size of s->fifo_buffer are set to 0x200, leading to an out-of-bound access. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition. (CVE-2024-3447) A flaw…

These are all security issues fixed in the qemu-8.0.3-2.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: e1000e: heap use-after-free in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest() (CVE-2023-3019)

• QEMU: VNC: infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (CVE-2023-3255)

• QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite (CVE-2023-5088)

• QEMU: VNC: NULL pointer dereference in qemu_clipboard_request() (CVE-2023-6683)

• QEMU: am53c974: denial of service due to division by zero (CVE-2023-42467)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.

Security Fix(es):

• QEMU: VNC: infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (CVE-2023-3255)

• QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite (CVE-2023-5088)

• QEMU: VNC: NULL pointer dereference in qemu_clipboard_request() (CVE-2023-6683)

• QEMU: virtio-net: stack buffer overflow in virtio_net_flush_tx() (CVE-2023-6693)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2023-3301: Fixed incorrect cleanup of the vdpa/vhost-net structures if peer nic is present (bsc#1213414).
• CVE-2023-0330: Fixed reentrancy issues in the LSI controller (bsc#1207205).
• CVE-2023-2861: Fixed opening special files in 9pfs (bsc#1212968).
• CVE-2023-3255: Fixed infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (bsc#1213001).

Bugfixes:

• hw/ide/piix: properly initialize the BMIBA register (bsc#bsc#1179993)
• Fixed issue where Guest did not run on XEN SLES15SP2 (bsc#1181740).

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2023-3301: Fixed incorrect cleanup of the vdpa/vhost-net structures if peer nic is present (bsc#1213414).
• CVE-2023-0330: Fixed reentrancy issues in the LSI controller (bsc#1207205).
• CVE-2023-2861: Fixed opening special files in 9pfs (bsc#1212968).
• CVE-2023-3255: Fixed infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (bsc#1213001).

Bugfixes:

• hw/ide/piix: properly initialize the BMIBA register (bsc#bsc#1179993)
• Fixed issue where Guest did not run on XEN SLES15SP2 (bsc#1181740).

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2023-2861: Fixed improper access control on special files in 9pfs (bsc#1212968).
• CVE-2023-3301: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in vhost_vdpa_get_vhost_net() (bsc#1213414).
• CVE-2023-3255: Fixed infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (bsc#1213001).

Gaoning Pan and Xingwei Li discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB xHCI controller device. A privileged guest attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14394)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the TCG Accelerator. A local attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code and esclate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-24165)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Intel HD audio device. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3611)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the ATI VGA device. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3638)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VMWare paravirtual RDMA device. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-1544)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 9p passthrough filesystem. A malicious guest attacker could possibly use this issue to open special files and escape the exported 9p tree. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-2861)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual crypto device. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3180)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the built-in VNC server. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3255)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled net device hot-unplugging. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3301)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the built-in VNC server. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3354)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled NVME devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-40360)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled NVME devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-4135)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SCSI devices. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-42467)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain disk offsets. A malicious guest attacker could possibly use this issue to gain control of the host in certain nested virtualization scenarios. (CVE-2023-5088)