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| author | Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> | 2020-04-14 15:30:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2020-04-15 09:18:48 -0500 |
| commit | 1329651fb4d4c5068ad12fd86aff7e52f9e18c34 (patch) | |
| tree | e2f2360f075a9666d68546a5bd01f4534072b91e /qga/qapi-schema.json | |
| parent | ead83a136d54f7faa315922aff26fa11d216909f (diff) | |
qga: Restrict guest-file-read count to 48 MB to avoid crashes
On [*] Daniel Berrangé commented:
The QEMU guest agent protocol is not sensible way to access huge
files inside the guest. It requires the inefficient process of
reading the entire data into memory than duplicating it again in
base64 format, and then copying it again in the JSON serializer /
monitor code.
For arbitrary general purpose file access, especially for large
files, use a real file transfer program or use a network block
device, not the QEMU guest agent.
To avoid bug reports as BZ#1594054 (CVE-2018-12617), follow his
suggestion to put a low, hard limit on "count" in the guest agent
QAPI schema, and don't allow count to be larger than 48 MB.
[*] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg693176.html
Fixes: CVE-2018-12617
Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1594054
Reported-by: Fakhri Zulkifli <mohdfakhrizulkifli@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
*update schema documentation to indicate 48MB limit instead of 10MB
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qga/qapi-schema.json')
| -rw-r--r-- | qga/qapi-schema.json | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qga/qapi-schema.json b/qga/qapi-schema.json index f6fcb59f34..4be9aad48e 100644 --- a/qga/qapi-schema.json +++ b/qga/qapi-schema.json @@ -266,11 +266,13 @@ ## # @guest-file-read: # -# Read from an open file in the guest. Data will be base64-encoded +# Read from an open file in the guest. Data will be base64-encoded. +# As this command is just for limited, ad-hoc debugging, such as log +# file access, the number of bytes to read is limited to 48 MB. # # @handle: filehandle returned by guest-file-open # -# @count: maximum number of bytes to read (default is 4KB) +# @count: maximum number of bytes to read (default is 4KB, maximum is 48MB) # # Returns: @GuestFileRead on success. # |