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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: document that the monitor console is a pri


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: document that the monitor console is a privileged control interface
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 09:41:07 -0500
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On 7/3/19 8:54 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> A supposed exploit of QEMU was recently announced as CVE-2019-12928
> claiming that the monitor console was insecure because the "migrate"
> comand enabled arbitrary command execution for a remote attacker.

command

> 
> For this to be a flaw the user launching QEMU must have configured
> the monitor in a way that allows for other userrs to access it. The

users

> exploit report quoted use of the "tcp" character device backend for
> QMP.
> -- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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