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Message-Id: <20160916172249.12FAB42E003@smtpvbsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:22:49 -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: pvscsi: infinite loop when processing IO requests

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> Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus
> emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur
> while processing SCSI IO requests.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process
> resulting in DoS.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03609.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376731
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d251157ac1928191af851d199a9ff255d330bec9

>> scsi: pvscsi: limit process IO loop to ring size
>> 
>> Vmware Paravirtual SCSI emulator while processing IO requests
>> could run into an infinite loop if 'pvscsi_ring_pop_req_descr'
>> always returned positive value. Limit IO loop to the ring size.

Use CVE-2016-7421.

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