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+   security-process
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+.. _security-process:
+
+Security Process
+================
+
+Please report any suspected security issue in QEMU to the security
+mailing list at:
+
+-  `<qemu-security@nongnu.org> <https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-security>`__
+
+To report an issue via `GPG <https://gnupg.org/>`__ encrypted email,
+please send it to the Red Hat Product Security team at:
+
+-  `<secalert@redhat.com> <https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/#contact>`__
+
+**Note:** after the triage, encrypted issue details shall be sent to the
+upstream ‘qemu-security’ mailing list for archival purposes.
+
+How to report an issue
+----------------------
+
+-  Please include as many details as possible in the issue report. Ex:
+
+   -  QEMU version, upstream commit/tag
+   -  Host & Guest architecture x86/Arm/PPC, 32/64 bit etc.
+   -  Affected code area/snippets
+   -  Stack traces, crash details
+   -  Malicious inputs/reproducer steps etc.
+   -  Any configurations/settings required to trigger the issue.
+
+-  Please share the QEMU command line used to invoke a guest VM.
+
+-  Please specify whom to acknowledge for reporting this issue.
+
+How we respond
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Process of handling security issues comprises following steps:
+
+   0) **Acknowledge:**
+
+   -  A non-automated response email is sent to the reporter(s) to
+      acknowledge the reception of the report. (*60 day’s counter starts
+      here*)
+
+   1) **Triage:**
+
+   -  Examine the issue details and confirm whether the issue is genuine
+   -  Validate if it can be misused for malicious purposes
+   -  Determine its worst case impact and severity
+      [Low/Moderate/Important/Critical]
+
+   2) **Response:**
+
+   -  Negotiate embargo timeline (if required, depending on severity)
+   -  Request a `CVE <https://cveform.mitre.org/>`__ and open an
+      upstream `bug <https://www.qemu.org/contribute/report-a-bug/>`__
+   -  Create an upstream fix patch annotated with
+
+      -  CVE-ID
+      -  Link to an upstream bugzilla
+      -  Reported-by, Tested-by etc. tags
+
+   -  Once the patch is merged, close the upstream bug with a link to
+      the commit
+
+      -  Fixed in: <commit hash/link>
+
+-  Above security lists are operated by select analysts, maintainers
+   and/or representatives from downstream communities.
+
+-  List members follow a **responsible disclosure** policy. Any
+   non-public information you share about security issues, is kept
+   confidential within members of the QEMU security team and a minimal
+   supporting staff in their affiliated companies. Such information will
+   not be disclosed to third party organisations/individuals without
+   prior permission from the reporter(s).
+
+-  We aim to process security issues within maximum of **60 days**. That
+   is not to say that issues will remain private for 60 days, nope.
+   After the triaging step above
+
+   -  If severity of the issue is sufficiently low, an upstream public
+      bug will be created immediately.
+   -  If severity of the issue requires co-ordinated disclosure at a
+      future date, then the embargo process below is followed, and
+      upstream bug will be opened at the end of the embargo period.
+
+   This will allow upstream contributors to create, test and track fix
+   patch(es).
+
+Publication embargo
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  If a security issue is reported that is not already public and its
+   severity requires coordinated disclosure, then an embargo date will
+   be set and communicated to the reporter(s).
+
+-  Embargo periods will be negotiated by mutual agreement between
+   reporter(s), members of the security list and other relevant parties
+   to the problem. The preferred embargo period is upto `2
+   weeks <https://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros>`__.
+   However, longer embargoes may be negotiated if the severity of the
+   issue requires it.
+
+-  Members of the security list agree not to publicly disclose any
+   details of an embargoed security issue until its embargo date
+   expires.
+
+CVE allocation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Each security issue is assigned a `CVE <https://cveform.mitre.org/>`__
+number. The CVE number is allocated by one of the vendor security
+engineers on the security list.
+
+When to contact the QEMU Security List
+--------------------------------------
+
+You should contact the Security List if: \* You think there may be a
+security vulnerability in QEMU. \* You are unsure about how a known
+vulnerability affects QEMU. \* You can contact us in English. We are
+unable to respond in other languages.
+
+When *not* to contact the QEMU Security List
+--------------------------------------------
+
+-  You need assistance in a language other than English.
+-  You require technical assistance (for example, “how do I configure
+   QEMU?”).
+-  You need help upgrading QEMU due to security alerts.
+-  Your issue is not security related.
+
+How impact and severity of a bug is decided
+-------------------------------------------
+
+**Security criterion:** ->
+https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/security.html
+
+All security issues in QEMU are not equal. Based on the parts of the
+QEMU sources wherein the bug is found, its impact and severity could
+vary.
+
+In particular, QEMU is used in many different scenarios; some of them
+assume that the guest is trusted, some of them don’t. General
+considerations to triage QEMU issues and decide whether a configuration
+is security sensitive include:
+
+-  Is there any feasible way for a malicious party to exploit this flaw
+   and cause real damage? (e.g. from a guest or via downloadable images)
+-  Does the flaw require access to the management interface? Would the
+   management interface be accessible in the scenario where the flaw
+   could cause real damage?
+-  Is QEMU used in conjunction with a hypervisor (as opposed to TCG
+   binary translation)?
+-  Is QEMU used to offer virtualised production services, as opposed to
+   usage as a development platform?
+
+Whenever some or all of these questions have negative answers, what
+appears to be a major security flaw might be considered of low severity
+because it could only be exercised in use cases where QEMU and
+everything interacting with it is trusted.
+
+For example, consider upstream commit `9201bb9 “sdhci.c: Limit the
+maximum block
+size” <https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/9201bb9>`__, an of
+out of bounds (OOB) memory access (ie. buffer overflow) issue that was
+found and fixed in the SD Host Controller emulation (hw/sd/sdhci.c).
+
+On the surface, this bug appears to be a genuine security flaw, with
+potentially severe implications. But digging further down, there are
+only two ways to use SD Host Controller emulation, one is via
+‘sdhci-pci’ interface and the other is via ‘generic-sdhci’ interface.
+
+Of these two, the ‘sdhci-pci’ interface had actually been disabled by
+default in the upstream QEMU releases (commit `1910913 “sdhci: Make
+device”sdhci-pci" unavailable with
+-device" <https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/1910913>`__ at
+the time the flaw was reported; therefore, guests could not possibly use
+‘sdhci-pci’ for any purpose.
+
+The ‘generic-sdhci’ interface, instead, had only one user in ‘Xilinx
+Zynq Baseboard emulation’ (hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c). Xilinx Zynq is a
+programmable systems on chip (SoC) device. While QEMU does emulate this
+device, in practice it is used to facilitate cross-platform
+developmental efforts, i.e. QEMU is used to write programs for the SoC
+device. In such developer environments, it is generally assumed that the
+guest is trusted.
+
+And thus, this buffer overflow turned out to be a security non-issue.
