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* [PATCH v2] hw/display/vmware_vga: Don't allow guest to trigger long running loop in host
@ 2026-07-23 12:44 Thomas Huth
  2026-07-23 13:54 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
  2026-07-23 15:05 ` Michael Tokarev
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Huth @ 2026-07-23 12:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel, Dmitry Fleytman; +Cc: qemu-trivial, qemu-stable

From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

The code in the SVGA_CMD_DEFINE_ALPHA_CURSOR handler in vmsvga_fifo_run()
basically does:

            x = vmsvga_fifo_read(s);
            y = vmsvga_fifo_read(s);
            args = x * y;
            goto badcmd;
            ...
badcmd:
            len -= args;
            if (len < 0) {
                goto rewind;
            }
            while (args--) {
                vmsvga_fifo_read(s);
            }

Thus by supplying huge values for x and y that overflow the result of
the multiplication, the guest can trigger a long-running loop here
that burns the host's CPU cycles.

Add some sanity checks so that this cannot happen anymore.

Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3782
Reported-by: Feifan Qian <bea1e@proton.me>
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/4026
Reported-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/4076
Reported-by: Sunday Jiang
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 v2: Use SVGA_MAX_WIDTH and SVGA_MAX_HEIGHT instead of an arbitrary value

 hw/display/vmware_vga.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/display/vmware_vga.c b/hw/display/vmware_vga.c
index f6f9edfd1d9..567806f0e47 100644
--- a/hw/display/vmware_vga.c
+++ b/hw/display/vmware_vga.c
@@ -737,6 +737,10 @@ static void vmsvga_fifo_run(struct vmsvga_state_s *s)
             vmsvga_fifo_read(s);
             x = vmsvga_fifo_read(s);
             y = vmsvga_fifo_read(s);
+            if (x < 0 || x >= SVGA_MAX_WIDTH ||
+                y < 0 || y >= SVGA_MAX_HEIGHT) {
+                goto rewind;
+            }
             args = x * y;
             goto badcmd;
         case SVGA_CMD_RECT_ROP_FILL:
@@ -776,7 +780,7 @@ static void vmsvga_fifo_run(struct vmsvga_state_s *s)
             if (len < 0) {
                 goto rewind;
             }
-            while (args--) {
+            while (args-- > 0) {
                 vmsvga_fifo_read(s);
             }
             printf("%s: Unknown command 0x%02x in SVGA command FIFO\n",
-- 
2.55.0



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2026-07-23 13:54 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2026-07-23 15:16   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-23 16:18     ` Thomas Huth
2026-07-23 16:20       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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2026-07-23 16:12   ` Thomas Huth

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