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* [Qemu-devel] [5587] CVE-2008-4539: fix a heap overflow in Cirrus emulation
@ 2008-11-01  0:53 Aurelien Jarno
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From: Aurelien Jarno @ 2008-11-01  0:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Revision: 5587
          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5587
Author:   aurel32
Date:     2008-11-01 00:53:39 +0000 (Sat, 01 Nov 2008)

Log Message:
-----------
CVE-2008-4539: fix a heap overflow in Cirrus emulation

The code in hw/cirrus_vga.c has changed a lot between CVE-2007-1320 has
been announced and the patch has been applied. As a consequence it has
wrongly applied and QEMU is still vulnerable to this bug if using VNC.

(noticed by Jan Niehusmann)

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

Modified Paths:
--------------
    trunk/hw/cirrus_vga.c

Modified: trunk/hw/cirrus_vga.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/hw/cirrus_vga.c	2008-11-01 00:53:30 UTC (rev 5586)
+++ trunk/hw/cirrus_vga.c	2008-11-01 00:53:39 UTC (rev 5587)
@@ -785,15 +785,14 @@
 
 static int cirrus_bitblt_videotovideo_copy(CirrusVGAState * s)
 {
+    if (BLTUNSAFE(s))
+        return 0;
+
     if (s->ds->dpy_copy) {
 	cirrus_do_copy(s, s->cirrus_blt_dstaddr - s->start_addr,
 		       s->cirrus_blt_srcaddr - s->start_addr,
 		       s->cirrus_blt_width, s->cirrus_blt_height);
     } else {
-
-    if (BLTUNSAFE(s))
-        return 0;
-
 	(*s->cirrus_rop) (s, s->vram_ptr +
                 (s->cirrus_blt_dstaddr & s->cirrus_addr_mask),
 			  s->vram_ptr +

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