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Ever since commit36683283(v2.8), the server code asserts that error strings sent to the client are well-formed per the protocol by not exceeding the maximum string length of 4096. At the time the server first started sending error messages, the assertion could not be triggered, because messages were completely under our control. However, over the years, we have added latent scenarios where a client could trigger the server to attempt an error message that would include the client's information if it passed other checks first: - requesting NBD_OPT_INFO/GO on an export name that is not present (commit0cfae925in v2.12 echoes the name) - requesting NBD_OPT_LIST/SET_META_CONTEXT on an export name that is not present (commite7b1948din v2.12 echoes the name) At the time, those were still safe because we flagged names larger than 256 bytes with a different message; but that changed in commit93676c88(v4.2) when we raised the name limit to 4096 to match the NBD string limit. (That commit also failed to change the magic number 4096 in nbd_negotiate_send_rep_err to the just-introduced named constant.) So with that commit, long client names appended to server text can now trigger the assertion, and thus be used as a denial of service attack against a server. As a mitigating factor, if the server requires TLS, the client cannot trigger the problematic paths unless it first supplies TLS credentials, and such trusted clients are less likely to try to intentionally crash the server. We may later want to further sanitize the user-supplied strings we place into our error messages, such as scrubbing out control characters, but that is less important to the CVE fix, so it can be a later patch to the new nbd_sanitize_name. Consideration was given to changing the assertion in nbd_negotiate_send_rep_verr to instead merely log a server error and truncate the message, to avoid leaving a latent path that could trigger a future CVE DoS on any new error message. However, this merely complicates the code for something that is already (correctly) flagging coding errors, and now that we are aware of the long message pitfall, we are less likely to introduce such errors in the future, which would make such error handling dead code. Reported-by: Xueqiang Wei <xuwei@redhat.com> CC: qemu-stable@nongnu.org Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1843684 CVE-2020-10761 Fixes:93676c88d7Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200610163741.3745251-2-eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> (cherry picked from commit5c4fe018c0) Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
=========== QEMU README =========== QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7 board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board). QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation. QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings. It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API. It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager. QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file. Building ======== QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are: .. code-block:: shell mkdir build cd build ../configure make Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website: * `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_ * `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_ * `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_ Submitting patches ================== The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system. .. code-block:: shell git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the guidelines set out in the CODING_STYLE.rst file. Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via the QEMU website * `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_ * `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_ The QEMU website is also maintained under source control. .. code-block:: shell git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git * `<https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/>`_ A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions, or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps manually for once. For installation instructions, please go to * `<https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish>`_ The workflow with 'git-publish' is: .. code-block:: shell $ git checkout master -b my-feature $ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each $ git publish Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer back to it in the future. Sending v2: .. code-block:: shell $ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch $ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example) $ git publish Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip will be tagged as my-feature-v2. Bug reporting ============= The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources should be reported via: * `<https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/>`_ If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be reported via launchpad. For additional information on bug reporting consult: * `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_ Contact ======= The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two main methods being email and IRC * `<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>`_ * `<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>`_ * #qemu on irc.oftc.net Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be found online via the QEMU website: * `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_