[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH v5 08/21] virtagent: add agent_viewfile qmp/hmp command

[Jes Sorensen]

On 12/09/10 22:12, Michael Roth wrote:
> On 12/07/2010 08:26 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> I believe this suffers from the same architectural problem I mentioned
>> in my comment to 07/21 - you don't restrict the file size, so it could
>> blow up the QEMU process on the host trying to view the wrong file.
> 
> It's restricted on the guest side:
> 
> virtagent-server.c:va_getfile():
> 
>     while ((ret = read(fd, buf, VA_FILEBUF_LEN)) > 0) {
>         file_contents = qemu_realloc(file_contents, count +
> VA_FILEBUF_LEN);
>         memcpy(file_contents + count, buf, ret);
>         count += ret;
>         if (count > VA_GETFILE_MAX) {
>             xmlrpc_faultf(env, "max file size (%d bytes) exceeded",
>                           VA_GETFILE_MAX);
>             goto EXIT_CLOSE_BAD;
>         }
>     }

You cannot rely on the guest controlling this. You really have to treat
any guest as hostile and keep control and security in the host,
otherwise a hacked guest could end up attacking the host by blowing up
the host's QEMU process.

Cheers,
Jes