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QEMU: net: vmxnet: integer overflow may crash guest

This bug has been copied automatically from: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1913873
Reported by 'P J P' on 2021-01-30 :

* Gaoning Pan from Zhejiang University & Ant Security Light-Year Lab
reported a malloc failure
  issue locates in vmxnet3_activate_device() of qemu/hw/net/vmxnet3.c NIC
emulator

* This issue is reproducible  because while activating the NIC device,
vmxnet3_activate_device
  does not validate guest supplied configuration values against predefined
min/max limits.

@@ -1420,6 +1420,7 @@ static void vmxnet3_activate_device(VMXNET3State *s)
     vmxnet3_setup_rx_filtering(s);
     /* Cache fields from shared memory */
     s->mtu = VMXNET3_READ_DRV_SHARED32(d, s->drv_shmem,
devRead.misc.mtu);
+    assert(VMXNET3_MIN_MTU <= s->mtu && s->mtu < VMXNET3_MAX_MTU);    <=
Did not check if MTU is within range
     VMW_CFPRN("MTU is %u", s->mtu);

     s->max_rx_frags =
@@ -1473,6 +1474,9 @@ static void vmxnet3_activate_device(VMXNET3State *s)
         /* Read rings memory locations for TX queues */
         pa = VMXNET3_READ_TX_QUEUE_DESCR64(d, qdescr_pa,
conf.txRingBasePA);
         size = VMXNET3_READ_TX_QUEUE_DESCR32(d, qdescr_pa,
conf.txRingSize);
+        if (size > VMXNET3_TX_RING_MAX_SIZE) {                      <=
Did not check TX ring size
+            size = VMXNET3_TX_RING_MAX_SIZE;
+        }

         vmxnet3_ring_init(d, &s->txq_descr[i].tx_ring, pa, size,
                           sizeof(struct Vmxnet3_TxDesc), false);
@@ -1483,6 +1487,9 @@ static void vmxnet3_activate_device(VMXNET3State *s)
         /* TXC ring */
         pa = VMXNET3_READ_TX_QUEUE_DESCR64(d, qdescr_pa,
conf.compRingBasePA);
         size = VMXNET3_READ_TX_QUEUE_DESCR32(d, qdescr_pa,
conf.compRingSize);
+        if (size > VMXNET3_TC_RING_MAX_SIZE) {                       <=
Did not check TC ring size
+            size = VMXNET3_TC_RING_MAX_SIZE;
+        }
         vmxnet3_ring_init(d, &s->txq_descr[i].comp_ring, pa, size,
                           sizeof(struct Vmxnet3_TxCompDesc), true);
         VMXNET3_RING_DUMP(VMW_CFPRN, "TXC", i,
&s->txq_descr[i].comp_ring);
@@ -1524,6 +1531,9 @@ static void vmxnet3_activate_device(VMXNET3State *s)
             /* RX rings */
             pa = VMXNET3_READ_RX_QUEUE_DESCR64(d, qd_pa,
conf.rxRingBasePA[j]);
             size = VMXNET3_READ_RX_QUEUE_DESCR32(d, qd_pa,
conf.rxRingSize[j]);
+            if (size > VMXNET3_RX_RING_MAX_SIZE) {                   <=
Did not check RX ring size
+                size = VMXNET3_RX_RING_MAX_SIZE;
+            }
             vmxnet3_ring_init(d, &s->rxq_descr[i].rx_ring[j], pa, size,
                               sizeof(struct Vmxnet3_RxDesc), false);
             VMW_CFPRN("RX queue %d:%d: Base: %" PRIx64 ", Size: %d",
@@ -1533,6 +1543,9 @@ static void vmxnet3_activate_device(VMXNET3State *s)
         /* RXC ring */
         pa = VMXNET3_READ_RX_QUEUE_DESCR64(d, qd_pa,
conf.compRingBasePA);
         size = VMXNET3_READ_RX_QUEUE_DESCR32(d, qd_pa,
conf.compRingSize);
+        if (size > VMXNET3_RC_RING_MAX_SIZE) {                      <=
Did not check RC ring size
+            size = VMXNET3_RC_RING_MAX_SIZE;
+        }

This may lead to potential integer overflow OR OOB buffer access issues.
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