File CVE-2016-9578-remote-dos-via-crafted-message.patch of Package spice
From fb8760d657271f52b357f83615c81bc984a3a197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:15:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH spice-server] Prevent possible DoS attempts during protocol handshake
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>
---
server/reds.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: spice-0.12.7/server/reds.c
===================================================================
--- spice-0.12.7.orig/server/reds.c 2016-04-14 17:09:22.000000000 +0200
+++ spice-0.12.7/server/reds.c 2017-02-02 12:21:06.346289634 +0100
@@ -2110,6 +2110,14 @@ static void reds_handle_read_link_done(v
link_mess->num_channel_caps = GUINT32_FROM_LE(link_mess->num_channel_caps);
link_mess->num_common_caps = GUINT32_FROM_LE(link_mess->num_common_caps);
+ /* Prevent DoS. Currently we defined only 13 capabilities so here 1 would suffice,
+ * I expect 1024 to be valid for quite a lot time */
+ if (link_mess->num_channel_caps > 1024 || link_mess->num_common_caps > 1024) {
+ reds_send_link_error(link, SPICE_LINK_ERR_INVALID_DATA);
+ reds_link_free(link);
+ return;
+ }
+
num_caps = link_mess->num_common_caps + link_mess->num_channel_caps;
caps = (uint32_t *)((uint8_t *)link_mess + link_mess->caps_offset);
@@ -2202,7 +2210,8 @@ static void reds_handle_read_header_done
reds->peer_minor_version = header->minor_version;
- if (header->size < sizeof(SpiceLinkMess)) {
+ /* the check for 4096 is to avoid clients to attempt DoS to the server */
+ if (header->size < sizeof(SpiceLinkMess) || header->size > 4096) {
reds_send_link_error(link, SPICE_LINK_ERR_INVALID_DATA);
spice_warning("bad size %u", header->size);
reds_link_free(link);