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authorKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2014-11-20 16:27:12 +0100
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2014-12-10 10:31:13 +0100
commit38f3ef574b48afc507c6f636ae4393fd36bda072 (patch)
treef73056ea34ba856cfc1eb935bd0b123f2ef56077 /include/hw/nvram
parent7cddd3728e964164e99c59e5c9443508d9ee0161 (diff)
raw: Prohibit dangerous writes for probed images
If the user neglects to specify the image format, QEMU probes the image to guess it automatically, for convenience. Relying on format probing is insecure for raw images (CVE-2008-2004). If the guest writes a suitable header to the device, the next probe will recognize a format chosen by the guest. A malicious guest can abuse this to gain access to host files, e.g. by crafting a QCOW2 header with backing file /etc/shadow. Commit 1e72d3b (April 2008) provided -drive parameter format to let users disable probing. Commit f965509 (March 2009) extended QCOW2 to optionally store the backing file format, to let users disable backing file probing. QED has had a flag to suppress probing since the beginning (2010), set whenever a raw backing file is assigned. All of these additions that allow to avoid format probing have to be specified explicitly. The default still allows the attack. In order to fix this, commit 79368c8 (July 2010) put probed raw images in a restricted mode, in which they wouldn't be able to overwrite the first few bytes of the image so that they would identify as a different image. If a write to the first sector would write one of the signatures of another driver, qemu would instead zero out the first four bytes. This patch was later reverted in commit 8b33d9e (September 2010) because it didn't get the handling of unaligned qiov members right. Today's block layer that is based on coroutines and has qiov utility functions makes it much easier to get this functionality right, so this patch implements it. The other differences of this patch to the old one are that it doesn't silently write something different than the guest requested by zeroing out some bytes (it fails the request instead) and that it doesn't maintain a list of signatures in the raw driver (it calls the usual probe function instead). Note that this change doesn't introduce new breakage for false positive cases where the guest legitimately writes data into the first sector that matches the signatures of an image format (e.g. for nested virt): These cases were broken before, only the failure mode changes from corruption after the next restart (when the wrong format is probed) to failing the problematic write request. Also note that like in the original patch, the restrictions only apply if the image format has been guessed by probing. Explicitly specifying a format allows guests to write anything they like. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-id: 1416497234-29880-8-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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