[oss-security] CVE-2018-18954 QEMU: ppc64: Out-of-bounds r/w stack access in pnv_lpc_do_eccb

[P J P]

Hello,

An OOB r/w buffer access issue was found in the PowerPC PowerNV LPC controller
in 'pnv_lpc_do_eccb' routine. It could occur while performing a memory write
operation. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process
resulting in DoS.

Upstream patch:
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-> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00446.html

This issue was reported by Moguofang of Huawei.com.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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