Vigil@nce - QEMU: memory corruption via scsi_handle_inquiry_reply
March 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: QEMU.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, denial of service on
server.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 24/01/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can trigger a memory
corruption via scsi_handle_inquiry_reply() of QEMU, in order to
trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code on the host
system.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/QEMU-memory-corruption-via-scsi-handle-inquiry-reply-28342