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Libvirt Security Notice: LSN-2014-0006
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Summary: virDomainBlockRebase probes file formats in spite
of explicit raw request
Reported on: 20140626
Published on: 20140626
Fixed on: 20140625
Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com>
Patched by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com>
Description
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When virDomainBlockRebase gained the VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY
flag, it was documented that libvirt might probe the format of the
destination file under certain circumstances; but since file format
probing is inherently unsafe for raw images (see CVE-2010-2237), the
API also included the VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY_RAW flag as a
safeguard to avoid the probe, in addition to the normal safeguards
of /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf being able to forbid all probes. However,
if a user has configured to allow probes, then two separate bugs in
the implementation create situations where even though the user
explicitly requested a raw destination, libvirt can end up probing
the file format of the destination after the time that
virDomainBlockAbort is used to pivot to that destination. The first
bug was introduced in v1.0.0, the same release as the initial
support for block copy: if the user requests the raw flag but lets
libvirt create the destination, then the destination file will be
raw but libvirt fails to record the fact. The second bug was
introduced in libvirt v1.2.1 as part of a fix for CVE-2013-6458 (and
therefore very likely to be backported to most builds that include
block copy support): if the user requests the raw flag and reuses an
existing destination file, but then later makes a second attempt to
do a block copy while the first copy is still underway, then libvirt
will forget that the destination is raw. In either scenario, once
libvirt has lost track that the destination is raw, it will probe
for the file format after a pivot. Note that although the block copy
API was not implemented upstream until v1.0.0, it can be backported
to any version that supports virDomainBlockRebase (as old as
v0.9.8), so downstream versions with a lower version number may also
suffer from these bugs.
Impact
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A malicious guest can store what looks like a different file format
in the header of its disk image, in the hopes that the host will use
block copy to relocate the storage for the guest disk into a raw
file. If the host enables format probing, and either bug triggers,
then the guest will be serviced by a raw destination after a block
copy pivot, and libvirt may deduce the wrong file format in spite of
the API being used correctly to copy to a raw destination. Once
libvirt probes an incorrect format, it may end up incorrectly
labelling host files, granting the guest access to a mislabeled host
file, or otherwise violating sVirt protections. However, for either
bug to actually happen, the host must set
allow_disk_format_probing=1 in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf; this setting
defaults to 0 with a lengthy comment warning of other possible
security problems if it is set to 1 without properly specifying
formats everywhere. Since any host that sticks with the default
configuration of disallowing probes is immune, this vulnerability
was not assigned a CVE. Furthermore, block copy as implemented in
the affected versions of libvirt is only possible on transient
domains, and most known users of block copy only perform shallow
copies (where the destination is qcow2 rather than raw), which is
also immune to incorrect probe results.
Workaround
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The guest cannot trigger the host to misbehave if the host leaves
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf with its default setting of
allow_disk_format_probing=0. Furthermore, even if probing is
allowed, a host that never performs a block copy to a raw
destination file (whether pre-existing, or created by libvirt) will
not be impacted. Finally, even if block copy occurs where libvirt
forgets that the destination is raw, the worst effects of acting on
probed information occur when booting a guest, so it is sufficient
to edit the domain XML before each start of a guest, and re-add any
lost <driver format='raw'/> element back to any disk that was
previously copied to a raw destination, to ensure that libvirt does
not probe the image and perform incorrect actions based on the
probe. The newer virDomainBlockCopy API is immune to the problem.
Affected product
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Name: libvirt
Repository: git://libvirt.org/git/libvirt.git
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git
Branch: master
Broken in: v1.0.0
Broken in: v1.0.1
Broken in: v1.0.2
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Broken in: v1.0.6
Broken in: v1.1.0
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Broken in: v1.2.0
Broken in: v1.2.1
Broken in: v1.2.2
Broken in: v1.2.3
Broken in: v1.2.4
Broken in: v1.2.5
Fixed in: v1.2.6
Broken by: 35c7701c64508f975dfeb8379c56b4b6d0d9b71c
Broken by: ff5f30b6bfa317f2a4c33f69289baf4e887eb048
Fixed by: 02b364e186d487f54ed410c01af042f23e812d42
Fixed by: 42619ed05d7924978f3e6e2399522fc6f30607de
Branch: v1.0.2-maint
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Branch: v1.0.3-maint
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Branch: v1.0.4-maint
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org