On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 3:09 AM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > The cadence UART attempts to avoid allowing the guset to set invalid > baud rate register values in the uart_write() function. However it > does the "mask to the size of the register field" and "check for > invalid values" in the wrong order, which means that a malicious > guest can get a bogus value into the register by setting also some > high bits in the value, and cause QEMU to crash by division-by-zero. > > Do the mask before the bounds check instead of afterwards. > > Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1493 > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.fran...@wdc.com> Alistair > --- > hw/char/cadence_uart.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/hw/char/cadence_uart.c b/hw/char/cadence_uart.c > index c069a30842e..807e3985419 100644 > --- a/hw/char/cadence_uart.c > +++ b/hw/char/cadence_uart.c > @@ -450,13 +450,15 @@ static MemTxResult uart_write(void *opaque, hwaddr > offset, > } > break; > case R_BRGR: /* Baud rate generator */ > + value &= 0xffff; > if (value >= 0x01) { > - s->r[offset] = value & 0xFFFF; > + s->r[offset] = value; > } > break; > case R_BDIV: /* Baud rate divider */ > + value &= 0xff; > if (value >= 0x04) { > - s->r[offset] = value & 0xFF; > + s->r[offset] = value; > } > break; > default: > -- > 2.34.1 > >