Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU, when built with the Q35-chipset-based PC system emulator.

Several vulnerabilities were found in qemu, a fast processor emulator :

CVE-2015-8666

Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU when built with the Q35-chipset-based PC system emulator

CVE-2016-2198

NULL pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write in the USB EHCI support that may result in denial of service

CVE-2016-6833

Use after free while writing in the vmxnet3 device that could be used to cause a denial of service

CVE-2016-6835

Buffer overflow in vmxnet_tx_pkt_parse_headers() in vmxnet3 device that could result in denial of service

CVE-2016-8576

Infinite loop vulnerability in xhci_ring_fetch in the USB xHCI support

CVE-2016-8667 / CVE-2016-8669

Divide by zero errors in set_next_tick in the JAZZ RC4030 chipset emulator, and in serial_update_parameters of some serial devices, that could result in denial of service

CVE-2016-9602

Improper link following with VirtFS

CVE-2016-9603

Heap buffer overflow via vnc connection in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support

CVE-2016-9776

Infinite loop while receiving data in the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator

CVE-2016-9907

Memory leakage in the USB redirector usb-guest support 

CVE-2016-9911

Memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer in the USB EHCI support

CVE-2016-9914 / CVE-2016-9915 / CVE-2016-9916

Plan 9 File System (9pfs): add missing cleanup operation in FileOperations, in the handle backend and in the proxy backend driver

CVE-2016-9921 / CVE-2016-9922

Divide by zero in cirrus_do_copy in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support 

CVE-2016-10155

Memory leak in hw/watchdog/wdt_i6300esb.c allowing local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service via a large number of device unplug operations.

CVE-2017-2615 / CVE-2017-2620 / CVE-2017-18030 / CVE-2018-5683 / CVE-2017-7718

Out-of-bounds access issues in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support, that could result in denial of service

CVE-2017-5525 / CVE-2017-5526

Memory leakage issues in the ac97 and es1370 device emulation

CVE-2017-5579

Most memory leakage in the 16550A UART emulation

CVE-2017-5667

Out-of-bounds access during multi block SDMA transfer in the SDHCI emulation support.

CVE-2017-5715

Mitigations against the Spectre v2 vulnerability. For more information please refer to https://www.qemu.org/2018/01/04/spectre/

CVE-2017-5856

Memory leak in the MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support

CVE-2017-5973 / CVE-2017-5987 / CVE-2017-6505

Infinite loop issues in the USB xHCI, in the transfer mode register of the SDHCI protocol, and the USB ohci_service_ed_list

CVE-2017-7377

9pfs: host memory leakage via v9fs_create

CVE-2017-7493

Improper access control issues in the host directory sharing via 9pfs support.

CVE-2017-7980

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA device that could allow local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service

CVE-2017-8086

9pfs: host memory leakage via v9pfs_list_xattr

CVE-2017-8112

Infinite loop in the VMWare PVSCSI emulation

CVE-2017-8309 / CVE-2017-8379

Host memory leakage issues via the audio capture buffer and the keyboard input event handlers 

CVE-2017-9330

Infinite loop due to incorrect return value in USB OHCI that may result in denial of service

CVE-2017-9373 / CVE-2017-9374

Host memory leakage during hot unplug in IDE AHCI and USB emulated devices that could result in denial of service

CVE-2017-9503

NULL pointer dereference while processing megasas command

CVE-2017-10806

Stack buffer overflow in USB redirector

CVE-2017-10911

Xen disk may leak stack data via response ring

CVE-2017-11434

Out-of-bounds read while parsing Slirp/DHCP options

CVE-2017-14167

Out-of-bounds access while processing multiboot headers that could result in the execution of arbitrary code

CVE-2017-15038

9pfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes

CVE-2017-15289

Out-of-bounds write access issue in the Cirrus graphic adaptor that could result in denial of service

CVE-2017-16845

Information leak in the PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation support that could be exploited during instance migration 

CVE-2017-18043

Integer overflow in the macro ROUND_UP (n, d) that could result in denial of service

CVE-2018-7550

Incorrect handling of memory during multiboot that could may result in execution of arbitrary code

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

- CVE-2015-7549: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue (bz     #1291138) * CVE-2015-8558: DoS by infinite loop in     ehci_advance_state (bz #1291309) * CVE-2015-8666:
    Heap-based buffer overrun during VM migration (bz     #1294027) * CVE-2015-8744: vmxnet3: fix crash with short     packets (bz #1295440) * CVE-2015-8745: vmxnet3: don't     assert reading registers in bar0 (bz #1295442)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

PV superpage functionality missing sanity checks [XSA-167, CVE-2016-1570] VMX: intercept issue with INVLPG on non-canonical address [XSA-168, CVE-2016-1571] Qemu: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue CVE-2015-7549 qemu: DoS by infinite loop in ehci_advance_state CVE-2015-8558 qemu: Heap-based buffer overrun during VM migration CVE-2015-8666 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash via assert(2) call CVE-2015-8744 qemu: Support reading IMR registers on bar0 CVE-2015-8745 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakage CVE-2015-8567 CVE-2015-8568 Qemu: net: ne2000: OOB memory access in ioport r/w functions CVE-2015-8743

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201602-01 (QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker might cause a Denial of Service or gain escalated       privileges from a guest VM.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2891-1 advisory.

    Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled PCI MSI-X support. An attacker inside the guest     could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-7549)

    Lian Yihan discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VNC server. A remote attacker could use this issue     to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8504)

    Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch     vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of     service (crash the host) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. (CVE-2015-8550)

    Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation support. An attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2015-8558)

    Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the vmxnet3 device. An attacker inside the guest     could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8567, CVE-2015-8568)

    Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SCSI MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation. An attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8613)

    Ling Liu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Human Monitor Interface. A local attacker could use     this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04     LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8619, CVE-2016-1922)

    David Alan Gilbert discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Q35 chipset emulation when performing VM     guest migrations. An attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8666)

    Ling Liu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the NE2000 device. An attacker inside the guest could     use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8743)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the vmxnet3 device. An attacker inside the guest could use     this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04     LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8744, CVE-2015-8745)

    Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrect handled IDE AHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could     use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user     running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be     isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-1568)

    Donghai Zhu discovered that QEMU incorrect handled the firmware configuration device. An attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the     host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt,     attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-1714)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the e1000 device. An attacker inside the guest could use     this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-1981)

    Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled IDE AHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could     use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu     15.10. (CVE-2016-2197)

    Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could     use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu     14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2016-2198)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports :

Qemu emulator built with the Q35 chipset based pc system emulator is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow. It occurs during VM guest migration, as more(16 bytes) data is moved into allocated (8 bytes) memory area.

A privileged guest user could use this issue to corrupt the VM guest image, potentially leading to a DoS. This issue affects q35 machine types.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
117351	Debian DLA-1497-1 : qemu security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
89634	Fedora 23 : qemu-2.4.1-5.fc23 (2016-e9bba2bb01)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
89624	Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-7.fc22 (2016-e1784417af)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
89574	Fedora 22 : qemu-2.3.1-10.fc22 (2016-890e612f52)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
89503	Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-7.fc23 (2016-2c15b72b01)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
88587	GLSA-201602-01 : QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities (Venom)	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
88576	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-2891-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
87687	FreeBSD : qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in Q35 chipset emulation (152acff3-b1bd-11e5-9728-002590263bf5)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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