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A malicious guest can craft virtqueue descriptors with arbitrary lengths. control_out() calls iov_size() on the guest-supplied scatter-gather list and passes the result directly to g_malloc(), allowing a guest to force QEMU to attempt multi-gigabyte allocations and crash the host process. Fix this by copying at most sizeof(struct virtio_console_control) into a stack-local variable instead of allocating a buffer sized by the guest. handle_control_message() only accesses the fixed-size id, event, and value fields, so no data beyond the struct was ever needed. Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3585 Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20260622161144.2883799-1-lvivier@redhat.com>