64-bit PV guest privilege escalation vulnerability

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Rafal Wojtczuk has discovered a vulnerability which can allow a 64-bit PV guest kernel running on a 64-bit hypervisor to escalate privileges to that of the host by arranging for a system call to return via sysret to a non-canonical RIP. Intel CPUs deliver the resulting exception...

PT-2013-2171 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.7.9 Description: The issue arises from the xen iret function in arch/x86/xen/xen-asm 32.S, which does not properly handle an invalid value in the DS segment register on 32-bit Xen paravirt ops platforms. This...

kernel: stack corruption in xen_failsafe_callback()

The xenfailsafecallback function in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.23 and other versions, when running a 32-bit PVOPS guest, allows local users to cause a denial of service guest crash by triggering an iret fault, leading to use of an incorrect stack pointer and stack corruption...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0190

The xenfailsafecallback function in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.23 and other versions, when running a 32-bit PVOPS guest, allows local users to cause a denial of service guest crash by triggering an iret fault, leading to use of an incorrect stack pointer and stack corruption...

CVE-2013-0190

The xenfailsafecallback function in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.23 and other versions, when running a 32-bit PVOPS guest, allows local users to cause a denial of service guest crash by triggering an iret fault, leading to use of an incorrect stack pointer and stack corruption...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0218

Xen 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1, when the guest OS has not registered a handler for a syscall or sysenter instruction, does not properly clear a flag for exception injection when injecting a General Protection Fault, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest crash by later...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2934

Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service host hang via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different...

kernel: xen: off-by-one shift in x86_64 __addr_ok()

Off-by-one error in the addrok macro in Xen 3.3 and earlier allows local 64 bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service host crash via unspecified hypercalls that ignore virtual-address bits...

kernel: xen: x86_64: fix error checking in arch_set_info_guest()

Xen, possibly before 4.0.2, allows local 64-bit PV guests to cause a denial of service host crash by specifying user mode execution without user-mode pagetables...

Memory corruption

The fixuppagefault function in arch/x86/traps.c in Xen 4.0.1 and earlier on 64-bit platforms, when paravirtualization is enabled, does not verify that kernel mode is used to call the handlegdtldtmappingfault function, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS BUGON via a...

CVE-2010-4255

The fixuppagefault function in arch/x86/traps.c in Xen 4.0.1 and earlier on 64-bit platforms, when paravirtualization is enabled, does not verify that kernel mode is used to call the handlegdtldtmappingfault function, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS BUGON via a...

CVE-2010-4255

The fixuppagefault function in arch/x86/traps.c in Xen 4.0.1 and earlier on 64-bit platforms, when paravirtualization is enabled, does not verify that kernel mode is used to call the handlegdtldtmappingfault function, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS BUGON via a...

CVE-2010-4255

The fixuppagefault function in arch/x86/traps.c in Xen 4.0.1 and earlier on 64-bit platforms, when paravirtualization is enabled, does not verify that kernel mode is used to call the handlegdtldtmappingfault function, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS BUGON via a...

CVE-2010-4255: Undefined Security Weakness

The fixuppagefault function in arch/x86/traps.c in Xen 4.0.1 and earlier on 64-bit platforms, when paravirtualization is enabled, does not verify that kernel mode is used to call the handlegdtldtmappingfault function, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS BUGON via a...

xen: 64-bit PV xen guest can crash host by accessing hypervisor per-domain memory area

The fixuppagefault function in arch/x86/traps.c in Xen 4.0.1 and earlier on 64-bit platforms, when paravirtualization is enabled, does not verify that kernel mode is used to call the handlegdtldtmappingfault function, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS BUGON via a...