CVE-2023-6693: Qemu: virtio-net: stack buffer overflow in virtio_net_flush_tx()
First published: Thu Dec 14 2023(Updated: )
A stack based buffer overflow was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. The flaw occurs while copying data to mhdr, a local variable of type virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf, when flushing TX in the virtio_net_flush_tx function. If guest features VIRTIO_NET_F_HASH_REPORT, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 and VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF are enabled, `n->guest_hdr_len` is set to sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash), which is bigger than sizeof(virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf). This vulnerability could potentially allow a malicious user to overwrite local variables adjacent to mhdr allocated on the stack. Specifically, the out_sg variable could be used to read some part of process memory and send it to the wire: ret = qemu_sendv_packet_async(qemu_get_subqueue(n->nic, queue_index), out_sg, out_num, virtio_net_tx_complete);
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <8.2.1 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =8.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =8.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =9.0 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =39 | |
| debian/qemu | <=1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3<=1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 1:9.0.2+ds-2 1:9.1.0+ds-3 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=2256436
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-01/msg00045.html
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/2220e8189fb94068dbad333228659fbac819abb0
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2962
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254580
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6693
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OYGUN5HVOXESW7MSNM44E4AE2VNXQB6Y/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0004/
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2023-6693
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/e22f0603fb2fc274920a9e3a1d1306260b9a4cc4
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-6693
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6693
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6693
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-6693
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