Re: [PATCH] hw/display/vga: fix panning_buf OOB after text/graphics switch

On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 7:16 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>
>
> The fields last_width and last_height serve two purposes: the text
> renderer counts in characters, the graphics renderer in pixels.
> panning_buf reallocation is guarded by geometry-change check, so the
> unit mismatch can trick it into thinking nothing changed when the
> resolution actually grew.
>
> A guest can trigger this by switching graphics -> text -> graphics:
>
>   1. Enter graphics mode with a small width (CR01=0x00, 8 pixels).
>      The predicate fires and panning_buf is allocated for that width.
>
>   2. Switch to text mode with a large width (CR01=0xFF, 256 chars).
>      The text renderer stores 256 into last_width. The text path
>      never touches panning_buf.
>
>   3. Switch back to graphics with a width that happens to equal 256
>      in pixels (CR01=0x1F, 32*8 = 256). The predicate sees
>      256 == 256 and skips the realloc. With horizontal pel panning
>      enabled, vga_draw_line4() then writes a full 256-pixel scanline
>      into the buffer still sized for 8 pixels -- a 960-byte heap
>      overflow on every scanline, every refresh.
>
> Fix it by reallocating unconditionally panning_buf on
> vga_draw_graphic().
>
> Fixes: CVE-2026-17516
> Fixes: 973a724eb006 ("vga: implement horizontal pel panning in graphics modes")
> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/4085
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Warisjeet Singh <[email protected]>
> [ Marc- André - drop realloc() resize condition & commit message ]
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>

ping

> ---
>  hw/display/vga.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/display/vga.c b/hw/display/vga.c
> index abe3f8e07758..da0c331486eb 100644
> --- a/hw/display/vga.c
> +++ b/hw/display/vga.c
> @@ -1647,11 +1647,12 @@ static void vga_draw_graphic(VGACommonState *s, int full_update)
>          s->last_line_offset = s->params.line_offset;
>          s->last_depth = depth;
>          s->last_byteswap = byteswap;
> -        /* 16 extra pixels are needed for double-width planar modes.  */
> -        s->panning_buf = g_realloc(s->panning_buf,
> -                                   (disp_width + 16) * sizeof(uint32_t));
>          full_update = 1;
>      }
> +
> +    /* 16 extra pixels are needed for double-width planar modes. */
> +    s->panning_buf = g_realloc(s->panning_buf,
> +                               (disp_width + 16) * sizeof(uint32_t));
>      if (surface_data(surface) != s->vram_ptr + (s->params.start_addr * 4)
>          && !surface_is_allocated(surface)) {
>          /* base address changed (page flip) -> shared display surfaces
> --
> 2.55.0
>
>