Commit 730d049c4b for qemu.org
commit 730d049c4b65646cb9fbfd789505d985859e83b6
Author: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Date: Mon Feb 16 21:36:32 2026 +0100
hw/char/virtio-serial-bus: Fix Heap-buffer-overflow in set_config()
When removing the 'emergency-write' property in commit d0660e5b7fc
we neglected to remove the code reducing the virtio_console_config
structure size, allowing to access up to the unallocated 'emerg_wr'
field.
Can be reproduced running:
$ cat << EOF | qemu-system-i386 -nodefaults \
-machine q35 -m 512M \
-device virtio-serial \
-display none \
-machine accel=qtest -qtest stdio
outl 0xcf8 0x80000810
outl 0xcfc 0xc000
outl 0xcf8 0x80000804
outw 0xcfc 0x01
outl 0xc014 0x00
EOF
==3210206==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow
on address 0x502000090858 at pc 0x5638f1300a9b bp 0x7fff6b525b80 sp 0x7fff6b525b70
READ of size 4 at 0x502000090858 thread T0
#0 0x5638f1300a9a in set_config hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c:590
#1 0x5638f0bccdcf in virtio_config_writel hw/virtio/virtio-config-io.c:104
#2 0x5638f0bd0c89 in virtio_pci_config_write hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c:637
#3 0x5638f0cf90cf in memory_region_write_accessor system/memory.c:491
#4 0x5638f0cf975b in access_with_adjusted_size system/memory.c:567
#5 0x5638f0d01d3f in memory_region_dispatch_write system/memory.c:1547
#6 0x5638f0d2fa1e in address_space_stm_internal system/memory_ldst.c.inc:85
#7 0x5638f0d30013 in address_space_stl_le system/memory_ldst_endian.c.inc:53
#8 0x5638f0ceb568 in cpu_outl system/ioport.c:79
#9 0x5638f0d3c0f9 in qtest_process_command system/qtest.c:483
0x502000090858 is located 0 bytes to the right of 8-byte region [0x502000090850,0x502000090858)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f0dc32cba57 in __interceptor_calloc src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:154
#1 0x7f0dc2382c50 in g_malloc0 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x5ec50)
#2 0x5638f1303c27 in virtio_serial_device_realize hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c:1046
#3 0x5638f1396a9c in virtio_device_realize hw/virtio/virtio.c:4053
#4 0x5638f13ea370 in device_set_realized hw/core/qdev.c:523
#5 0x5638f13fdaf6 in property_set_bool qom/object.c:2376
#6 0x5638f13f9098 in object_property_set qom/object.c:1450
#7 0x5638f140283c in object_property_set_qobject qom/qom-qobject.c:28
#8 0x5638f13f9616 in object_property_set_bool qom/object.c:1520
#9 0x5638f13e91cc in qdev_realize hw/core/qdev.c:276
#10 0x5638f0c3d94b in virtio_serial_pci_realize hw/virtio/virtio-serial-pci.c:69
#11 0x5638f0bda886 in virtio_pci_realize hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c:2351
#12 0x5638f09bc2ae in pci_qdev_realize hw/pci/pci.c:2310
#13 0x5638f0bdb2f2 in virtio_pci_dc_realize hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c:2473
#14 0x5638f13ea370 in device_set_realized hw/core/qdev.c:523
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c:590 in set_config
Fixes: d0660e5b7fc ("hw/char/virtio-serial: Do not expose the 'emergency-write' property")
Reported-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3303
Buglink: https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/484647006
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
Message-Id: <20260216205527.45938-1-philmd@linaro.org>
diff --git a/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c b/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
index b7c57ea967..cd234dc6db 100644
--- a/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
+++ b/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
@@ -1039,10 +1039,6 @@ static void virtio_serial_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
return;
}
- if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev->host_features,
- VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_EMERG_WRITE)) {
- config_size = offsetof(struct virtio_console_config, emerg_wr);
- }
virtio_init(vdev, VIRTIO_ID_CONSOLE, config_size);
/* Spawn a new virtio-serial bus on which the ports will ride as devices */