Xen users - Sep 2012 - Xen Security Advisory 14 (CVE-2012-3496) - XENMEM_populate_physmap DoS vulnerability

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            Xen Security Advisory CVE-2012-3496 / XSA-14
                             version 3

           XENMEM_populate_physmap DoS vulnerability

UPDATES IN VERSION 3
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Public release.  Credit Matthew Daley.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION
================
XENMEM_populate_physmap can be called with invalid flags.  By calling
it with MEMF_populate_on_demand flag set, a BUG can be triggered if a
translating paging mode is not being used.

IMPACT
=====
A malicious guest kernel can crash the host.

VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
=================
All Xen systems running PV guests.  Systems running only HVM guests
are not vulnerable.

The vulnerability dates back to at least Xen 4.0.  4.0, 4.1, the 4.2
RCs, and xen-unstable.hg are all vulnerable.

MITIGATION
=========
This issue can be mitigated by ensuring that the guest kernel is
trustworthy or by running only HVM guests.

RESOLUTION
=========
Applying the appropriate attached patch will resolve the issue.

CREDIT
=====
Thanks to Matthew Daley for finding this vulnerability (and that in
XSA-12) and notifying the Xen.org security team.

PATCH INFORMATION
================
The attached patches resolve this issue

 xen-unstable                                xsa14-unstable.patch
 Xen 4.1, 4.1.x, 4.0, 4.0.x, 3.4 and 3.4.x   xsa14-xen-3.4-and-4.x.patch

$ sha256sum xsa14-*.patch
7a2e119b114708420c3484ecc338c7a198097f40e0d38854756dfa69c4c859a8 
xsa14-unstable.patch
41a1ee1da7e990dc93b75fad0d46b66a2bda472e9aa288c91d1dc5d15d2c2012 
xsa14-xen-3.4-and-4.x.patch
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