From: Heechan Kang <gganji11@naver.com>

QEMU's VNC extended clipboard handler inflates a client-controlled
compressed clipboard payload. The code checks the declared text size
against the total inflated buffer size:

    if (tsize < size)

but then copies from:

    tbuf = buf + 4;
    qemu_clipboard_set_data(..., tsize, tbuf, true);

The correct bound is the remaining data length after the 4-byte length
field, not the total inflated buffer length.

As a result, a VNC client can make QEMU copy up to 3 bytes past the end
of the inflated heap buffer. With a second VNC client, those copied
bytes are observable through the normal VNC extended clipboard PROVIDE
path.

Fixes: CVE-2026-8343
Reported-by: Heechan Kang <gganji11@naver.com>
Reported-by: Feifan Qian <bea1e@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heechan Kang <gganji11@naver.com>
[DB: added #include and 'return' statements]
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20260512095543.459949-1-berrange@redhat.com>
---
 ui/vnc-clipboard.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ui/vnc-clipboard.c b/ui/vnc-clipboard.c
index 124b6fbd9c2..fa05d86f424 100644
--- a/ui/vnc-clipboard.c
+++ b/ui/vnc-clipboard.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "vnc.h"
 #include "vnc-jobs.h"
 
@@ -282,10 +283,16 @@ void vnc_client_cut_text_ext(VncState *vs, int32_t len, uint32_t flags, uint8_t
             buf && size >= 4) {
             uint32_t tsize = read_u32(buf, 0);
             uint8_t *tbuf = buf + 4;
-            if (tsize < size) {
+            if (tsize <= size - 4) {
                 qemu_clipboard_set_data(&vs->cbpeer, vs->cbinfo,
                                         QEMU_CLIPBOARD_TYPE_TEXT,
                                         tsize, tbuf, true);
+            } else {
+                error_report("vnc: malformed extended clipboard payload "
+                             "with text length %u exceeding available %u",
+                             tsize, size - 4);
+                vnc_client_error(vs);
+                return;
             }
         }
     }
-- 
2.54.0