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HistoryAug 15, 2017 - 12:00 p.m.

multiple problems with transitive grants

2017-08-1512:00:00
Xen Project
xenbits.xen.org
303

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

24.8%

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

  1. Code to handle copy operations on transitive grants has built in retry logic, involving a function reinvoking itself with unchanged parameters. Such use assumes that the compiler would also translate this to a so called “tail call” when generating machine code. Empirically, this is not commonly the case, allowing for theoretically unbounded nesting of such function calls.
  2. The reference counting and locking discipline for transitive grants is broken. Concurrent use of the transitive grant can leak references on the transitively-referenced grant.

IMPACT

A malicious or buggy guest may be able to crash Xen. Privilege escalation and information leaks cannot be ruled out. A malicious or buggy guest can leak references on grants it has been given, amounting to a DoS against the grantee.

VULNERABLE SYSTEMS

All versions of Xen are vulnerable.

CPENameOperatorVersion
xeneqany

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

24.8%