On 18 April 2016 at 21:50, Alistair Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Peter Maydell <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> CCing the maintainers for this device...
>>
>> On 18 April 2016 at 11:07, Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> cadence_uart_init() initializes an I/O memory region of size 0x1000
>>> bytes.  However in uart_write(), the 'offset' parameter (offset within
>>> region) is divided by 4 and then used to index the array 'r' of size
>>> CADENCE_UART_R_MAX which is much smaller: (0x48/4).  If 'offset>>=2'
>>> exceeds CADENCE_UART_R_MAX, this will cause an out-of-bounds memory
>>> write where the offset and the value are controlled by guest.
>>>
>>> This will corrupt QEMU memory, in most situations this causes the vm to
>>> crash.
>>>
>>> Fix by checking the offset against the array size.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: 李强 <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
>
> Good catch.
>
> Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <[email protected]>

Applied to master, thanks (so this will be in rc3). I added
a Cc: [email protected] tag too.

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