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CVE-2014-8106 qemu: cirrus: insufficient blit region checks


From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 14:14:38 +0100

It was found that the Cirrus blit region checks were insufficient.

Cirrus is the default graphical adapter for x86 in qemu in any released
version, and it's also used for vnc (spice uses qxl).

A privileged guest user could use this flaw to to write outside of vram
allocated buffer boundaries in the host's qemu process with attacker
provided data.

Upstream patch submission:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-12/msg00508.html

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169454

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Petr Matousek / Red Hat Product Security
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