qemu: avoid denial of service reading from QEMU guest agent (CVE-2018-1064)

We read from the agent until seeing a \r\n pair to indicate a completed
reply or event. To avoid memory denial-of-service though, we must have a
size limit on amount of data we buffer. 10 MB is large enough that it
ought to cope with normal agent replies, and small enough that we're not
consuming unreasonable mem.

This is identical to the flaw we had reading from the QEMU monitor
as CVE-2018-5748, so rather embarrassing that we forgot to fix
the agent code at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_agent.c b/src/qemu/qemu_agent.c
index 0f36054a6160e24fe26e7e0138194afc6c14d071..89183c3f762617c7cb925f8bde013be4ad48a04d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_agent.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_agent.c
@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ VIR_LOG_INIT("qemu.qemu_agent");
 #define DEBUG_IO 0
 #define DEBUG_RAW_IO 0
 
+/* We read from QEMU until seeing a \r\n pair to indicate a
+ * completed reply or event. To avoid memory denial-of-service
+ * though, we must have a size limit on amount of data we
+ * buffer. 10 MB is large enough that it ought to cope with
+ * normal QEMU replies, and small enough that we're not
+ * consuming unreasonable mem.
+ */
+#define QEMU_AGENT_MAX_RESPONSE (10 * 1024 * 1024)
+
 /* When you are the first to uncomment this,
  * don't forget to uncomment the corresponding
  * part in qemuAgentIOProcessEvent as well.
@@ -535,6 +544,12 @@ qemuAgentIORead(qemuAgentPtr mon)
     int ret = 0;
 
     if (avail < 1024) {
+        if (mon->bufferLength >= QEMU_AGENT_MAX_RESPONSE) {
+            virReportSystemError(ERANGE,
+                                 _("No complete agent response found in %d bytes"),
+                                 QEMU_AGENT_MAX_RESPONSE);
+            return -1;
+        }
         if (VIR_REALLOC_N(mon->buffer,
                           mon->bufferLength + 1024) < 0)
             return -1;