** Also affects: cloud-archive Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: cloud-archive Status: New => Fix Released
** Changed in: cloud-archive Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Also affects: cloud-archive/liberty Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: cloud-archive/newton Importance: Medium Status: Fix Released ** Also affects: cloud-archive/mitaka Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: cloud-archive/liberty Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: cloud-archive/mitaka Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: cloud-archive/mitaka Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1449062 Title: qemu-img calls need to be restricted by ulimit (CVE-2015-5162) Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive: Fix Released Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive liberty series: New Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive mitaka series: Fix Committed Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive newton series: Fix Released Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Fix Released Status in OpenStack Security Advisory: Confirmed Status in python-oslo.concurrency package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in python-oslo.concurrency source package in Wily: Fix Committed Status in python-oslo.concurrency source package in Xenial: Fix Released Status in python-oslo.concurrency source package in Yakkety: Fix Released Bug description: Reported via private E-mail from Richard W.M. Jones. Turns out qemu image parser is not hardened against malicious input and can be abused to allocated an arbitrary amount of memory and/or dump a lot of information when used with "--output=json". The solution seems to be: limit qemu-img ressource using ulimit. Example of abuse: -- afl1.img -- $ /usr/bin/time qemu-img info afl1.img image: afl1.img [...] 0.13user 0.19system 0:00.36elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 642416maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+156927minor)pagefaults 0swaps The original image is 516 bytes, but it causes qemu-img to allocate 640 MB. -- afl2.img -- $ qemu-img info --output=json afl2.img | wc -l 589843 This is a 200K image which causes qemu-img info to output half a million lines of JSON (14 MB of JSON). Glance runs the --output=json variant of the command. -- afl3.img -- $ /usr/bin/time qemu-img info afl3.img image: afl3.img [...] 0.09user 0.35system 0:00.47elapsed 94%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1262388maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+311994minor)pagefaults 0swaps qemu-img allocates 1.3 GB (actually, a bit more if you play with ulimit -v). It appears that you could change it to allocate arbitrarily large amounts of RAM. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1449062/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp