Xen.org security team
2013-Nov-01 15:07 UTC
Xen Security Advisory 73 - Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks
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Xen Security Advisory XSA-73
Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks
NOTE REGARDING LACK OF EMBARGO
=============================
While the response to this issue was being prepared by the security
team, the bug was independently discovered by a third party who
publicly disclosed it without realising the security impact.
ISSUE DESCRIPTION
================
The locks page_alloc_lock and grant_table.lock are not always taken in
the same order. This opens the possibility of deadlock.
IMPACT
=====
A malicious guest administrator can deny service to the entire host.
VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
=================
Xen versions going back to at least Xen 3.2 are vulnerable.
To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must have control of more
than one vcpu, either by controlling a malicious multi-vcpu guest, or
by controlling more than one guest.
MITIGATION
=========
There is no practical mitigation for this issue.
CREDITS
======
This issue was discovered by Coverity Scan and diagnosed by Andrew
Cooper.
RESOLUTION
=========
Applying the appropriate attached patch resolves this issue.
xsa73-4.3-unstable.patch Xen 4.3.x, xen-unstable
xsa73-4.2.patch Xen 4.2.x
xsa73-4.1.patch Xen 4.1.x
$ sha256sum xsa73*.patch
b828ff085f2dc1f2042bda1dc8a6c52b56ad1c1e3639c3efe32e5706e4ef424f
xsa73-4.1.patch
10b809c39582a7f29150f0635b78bc2ce40df0bded963b78f42db3e21775da8c
xsa73-4.2.patch
48411cd6b15e4e4fa3c4335298179a4b1094c5e1ae8dc7582bbfb9439d97037b
xsa73-4.3-unstable.patch
$
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Xen.org security team
2013-Nov-01 15:25 UTC
Xen Security Advisory 73 - Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks
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Xen Security Advisory XSA-73
version 2
Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks
UPDATES IN VERSION 2
===================
Corrected typo in xsa73-4.1.patch. The other patches were already
correct.
NOTE REGARDING LACK OF EMBARGO
=============================
While the response to this issue was being prepared by the security
team, the bug was independently discovered by a third party who
publicly disclosed it without realising the security impact.
ISSUE DESCRIPTION
================
The locks page_alloc_lock and grant_table.lock are not always taken in
the same order. This opens the possibility of deadlock.
IMPACT
=====
A malicious guest administrator can deny service to the entire host.
VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
=================
Xen versions going back to at least Xen 3.2 are vulnerable.
To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must have control of more
than one vcpu, either by controlling a malicious multi-vcpu guest, or
by controlling more than one guest.
MITIGATION
=========
There is no practical mitigation for this issue.
CREDITS
======
This issue was discovered by Coverity Scan and diagnosed by Andrew
Cooper.
RESOLUTION
=========
Applying the appropriate attached patch resolves this issue.
xsa73-4.3-unstable.patch Xen 4.3.x, xen-unstable
xsa73-4.2.patch Xen 4.2.x
xsa73-4.1.patch Xen 4.1.x
$ sha256sum xsa73*.patch
c9284e2c12b1c4f8c63d11b8802b4f408e6623f857f120b04e47840f433e4823
xsa73-4.1.patch
10b809c39582a7f29150f0635b78bc2ce40df0bded963b78f42db3e21775da8c
xsa73-4.2.patch
48411cd6b15e4e4fa3c4335298179a4b1094c5e1ae8dc7582bbfb9439d97037b
xsa73-4.3-unstable.patch
$
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