Commit 70074cc48f for qemu.org
commit 70074cc48f450e6c95881ac534e67013c8773cb2
Author: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jul 15 16:13:00 2026 +0200
backends/rng: cap request size to avoid oversized allocation
rng_backend_request_entropy() uses the requested size to allocate
a buffer with g_malloc(). With virtio-rng, this size comes from
guest-supplied descriptor lengths. A malicious guest can set a very
large descriptor length, causing QEMU to attempt a multi-gigabyte
allocation and abort.
Cap the allocation to 64 KiB. The virtio-rng queue size is
hardcoded to 8 entries, the EGD backend protocol limits requests
to 255 bytes, the Linux kernel hwrng framework requests at most
SMP_CACHE_BYTES per call (64 bytes on x86_64), and the Windows
viorng driver uses a 4 KiB buffer. The worst legitimate case is
8 x 4 KiB = 32 KiB, so 64 KiB is well above any legitimate use.
Fixes: 14417039653d ("virtio-rng: use virtqueue_get_avail_bytes, fix migration")
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3983
Reported-by: dong ling <dongling226655@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20260715141300.2295392-1-lvivier@redhat.com>
diff --git a/backends/rng.c b/backends/rng.c
index 7bed62616a..bc9c7a5ab3 100644
--- a/backends/rng.c
+++ b/backends/rng.c
@@ -11,11 +11,14 @@
*/
#include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "qemu/units.h"
#include "system/rng.h"
#include "qapi/error.h"
#include "qemu/module.h"
#include "qom/object_interfaces.h"
+#define RNG_MAX_REQUEST_SIZE (64 * KiB)
+
void rng_backend_request_entropy(RngBackend *s, size_t size,
EntropyReceiveFunc *receive_entropy,
void *opaque)
@@ -27,7 +30,7 @@ void rng_backend_request_entropy(RngBackend *s, size_t size,
req = g_malloc(sizeof(*req));
req->offset = 0;
- req->size = size;
+ req->size = MIN(size, RNG_MAX_REQUEST_SIZE);
req->receive_entropy = receive_entropy;
req->opaque = opaque;
req->data = g_malloc(req->size);