Xen.org security team
2014-Sep-11 13:00 UTC
Xen Security Advisory 107 (CVE-2014-6268) - Mishandling of uninitialised FIFO-based event channel control blocks
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Xen Security Advisory CVE-2014-6268 / XSA-107
version 2
Mishandling of uninitialised FIFO-based event channel control blocks
UPDATES IN VERSION 2
===================
CVE assigned.
ISSUE DESCRIPTION
================
When using the FIFO-based event channels, there are no checks for the
existence of a control block when binding an event or moving it to a
different VCPU. This is because events may be bound when the ABI is
in 2-level mode (e.g., by the toolstack before the domain is started).
The guest may trigger a Xen crash in evtchn_fifo_set_pending() if:
a) the event is bound to a VCPU without a control block; or
b) VCPU 0 does not have a control block.
In case (a), Xen will crash when looking up the current queue. In
(b), Xen will crash when looking up the old queue (which defaults to a
queue on VCPU 0).
IMPACT
=====
A buggy or malicious guest can crash the host.
VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
=================
Xen 4.4 and onward are vulnerable.
MITIGATION
=========
None.
CREDITS
======
This issue was originally reported by Vitaly Kuznetsov at Red Hat and
diagnosed as a security issue by David Vrabel at Citrix.
NOTE REGARDING LACK OF EMBARGO
=============================
This bug was publicly reported on xen-devel, before it was appreciated
that there was a security problem.
RESOLUTION
=========
Applying the appropriate attached patch resolves this issue.
xsa107-unstable.patch xen-unstable
xsa107-4.4.patch Xen 4.4.x
$ sha256sum xsa107*.patch
b92ba8085b6684abbc8b012ae1a580b9e7ed7c8e67071a9e70381d4c1009638b
xsa107-4.4.patch
cd954a5bd742c751f8db884a3f31bd636a8c5850acddf5f1160dd6be1f706a09
xsa107-unstable.patch
$
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