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Message-Id: <20160524134554.0F51B6C0E37@smtpvmsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 09:45:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, liqiang6-s@....cn
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Qemu: scsi: mptsas infinite loop in mptsas_fetch_requests

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> Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the LSI SAS1068 Host Bus Adapter emulation
> support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while fetching
> new requests in mptsas_fetch_requests().
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to consume excessive host
> resources or crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04027.html

>> The LSI SAS1068 Host Bus Adapter emulator in Qemu, periodically
>> looks for requests and fetches them. A loop doing that in
>> mptsas_fetch_requests() could run infinitely if 's->state' was
>> not operational. Move check to avoid such a loop.

Use CVE-2016-4964.

This is not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=hw/scsi/mptsas.c but
that may be an expected place for a later update.

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CVE Assignment Team
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