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[3.11,194/208] KVM: Improve create VCPU parameter (CVE-2013-4587)

Message ID 1387454106-19326-195-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques Dec. 19, 2013, 11:54 a.m. UTC
3.11.10.2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Honig <ahonig@google.com>

commit 338c7dbadd2671189cec7faf64c84d01071b3f96 upstream.

In multiple functions the vcpu_id is used as an offset into a bitfield.  Ag
malicious user could specify a vcpu_id greater than 255 in order to set or
clear bits in kernel memory.  This could be used to elevate priveges in the
kernel.  This patch verifies that the vcpu_id provided is less than 255.
The api documentation already specifies that the vcpu_id must be less than
max_vcpus, but this is currently not checked.

Reported-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 1580dd4..a80076c 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1904,6 +1904,9 @@  static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, u32 id)
 	int r;
 	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, *v;
 
+	if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	vcpu = kvm_arch_vcpu_create(kvm, id);
 	if (IS_ERR(vcpu))
 		return PTR_ERR(vcpu);