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HistoryNov 29, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

QEMU 2.10 Buffer Overflow

2017-11-2900:00:00
Eric Blake
packetstormsecurity.com
32

0.022 Low

EPSS

Percentile

89.6%

`Introduced in commit f37708f6b8 (2.10). The NBD spec says a client  
can request export names up to 4096 bytes in length, even though  
they should not expect success on names longer than 256. However,  
qemu hard-codes the limit of 256, and fails to filter out a client  
that probes for a longer name; the result is a stack smash that can  
potentially give an attacker arbitrary control over the qemu  
process.  
  
The smash can be easily demonstrated with this client:  
  
$ qemu-io f raw nbd://localhost:10809/$(printf %3000d 1 | tr ' ' a)  
  
If the qemu NBD server binary (whether the standalone qemu-nbd, or  
the builtin server of QMP nbd-server-start) was compiled with  
-fstack-protector-strong, the ability to exploit the stack smash  
into arbitrary execution is a lot more difficult (but still  
theoretically possible to a determined attacker, perhaps in  
combination with other CVEs). Still, crashing a running qemu (and  
losing the VM) is bad enough, even if the attacker did not obtain  
full execution control.  
  
`