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From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
To: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, peter.maydell@linaro.org,
	Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>,
	qemu-stable@nongnu.org, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] fdc: force the fifo access to be in bounds of the allocated buffer
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 16:03:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5553ADFB.2060105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5553ADBF.6060005@kamp.de>



On 05/13/2015 04:02 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Am 13.05.2015 um 21:52 schrieb Markus Armbruster:
>> Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de> writes:
>>
>>> Am 13.05.2015 um 21:09 schrieb Stefan Priebe:
>>>> Am 13.05.2015 um 21:05 schrieb Stefan Weil:
>>>>> Am 13.05.2015 um 20:59 schrieb Stefan Priebe:
>>>>>> Am 13.05.2015 um 20:51 schrieb Stefan Weil:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just noticed this patch because my provider told me that my KVM based
>>>>>>> server
>>>>>>> needs a reboot because of a CVE (see this German news:
>>>>>>> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Venom-Schwachstelle-Aus-Hypervisor-ausbrechen-und-VMs-ausspionieren-2649614.html)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Isn't a live migration to a fixed version enough instead of a reboot?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stefan
>>>>> Good point. A live migration would be sufficient - if there are no bugs
>>>>> in QEMU's live migration.
>>>> just migrating all our customer machines and wanted to be sure that
>>>> live migration is enough.
>>> Just to confirm: If Qemu is started with -nodefaults and there is no
>>> fdc configuration the system is not affected by this CVE?
>> Not true.  The FD controller is still there.  It has no drives attached
>> then, but is vulnerable all the same.
> 
> Are you sure? With -nodefaults the hmp command 'info block' returns nothing and
> the guest sees no floppy drive.
> 
> Without -nodefaults I indeed see floppy0 and I have /dev/fd0 in the guest respectively.
> 
> Peter
> 

It's not the *drive* that is the problem, it is the *controller*.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-13 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13 14:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fdc: force the fifo access to be in bounds of the allocated buffer John Snow
2015-05-13 14:33 ` John Snow
2015-05-13 14:35   ` John Snow
2015-05-13 18:51 ` Stefan Weil
2015-05-13 18:59   ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] " Stefan Priebe
2015-05-13 19:04     ` John Snow
2015-05-13 19:06       ` Stefan Priebe
2015-05-13 19:05     ` Stefan Weil
2015-05-13 19:09       ` Stefan Priebe
2015-05-13 19:30         ` Peter Lieven
2015-05-13 19:52           ` Markus Armbruster
2015-05-13 20:02             ` Peter Lieven
2015-05-13 20:03               ` John Snow [this message]
2015-05-13 20:04                 ` Peter Lieven
2015-05-13 20:54   ` [Qemu-devel] " John Snow

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