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Wanpeng Li
authored
Huawei folks reported a read out-of-bounds vulnerability in kvm pio emulation.
- "inb" instruction to access PIT Mod/Command register (ioport 0x43, write only,
a read should be ignored) in guest can get a random number.
- "rep insb" instruction to access PIT register port 0x43 can control memcpy()
in emulator_pio_in_emulated() to copy max 0x400 bytes but only read 1 bytes,
which will disclose the unimportant kernel memory in host but no crash.
The similar test program below can reproduce the read out-of-bounds vulnerability:
void hexdump(void *mem, unsigned int len)
{
unsigned int i, j;
for(i = 0; i < len + ((len % HEXDUMP_COLS) ? (HEXDUMP_COLS - len % HEXDUMP_COLS) : 0); i++)
{
/* print offset */
if(i % HEXDUMP_COLS == 0)
{
printf("0x%06x: ", i);
}
/* print hex data */
if(i < len)
...