Disable qemu monitor by default. The qemu monitor is an overly

powerful feature which must be protected from untrusted (guest)
administrators.

Neither xl nor xend expect qemu to produce this monitor unless it is
explicitly requested.

This is a security problem, XSA-19.  Previously it was CVE-2007-0998
in Red Hat but we haven't dealt with it in upstream.  We hope to have
a new CVE for it here but we don't have one yet.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
(cherry picked from commit bacc0d302445c75f18f4c826750fb5853b60e7ca)

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index f07a6592ac84954a4ce59b1dd04d96d2c2642b64..686a9bdd586c9c3843e430275e034f9a62460398 100644 (file)
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -4910,7 +4910,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
     kernel_cmdline = "";
     cyls = heads = secs = 0;
     translation = BIOS_ATA_TRANSLATION_AUTO;
-    monitor_device = "vc:80Cx24C";
+    monitor_device = "null";
 
     serial_devices[0] = "vc:80Cx24C";
     for(i = 1; i < MAX_SERIAL_PORTS; i++)