Bug 1012550 (CVE-2013-4368)

Summary: CVE-2013-4368 xen: information leak through outs instruction emulation (XSA-67)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: agordeev, anton, dhoward, drjones, imammedo, jkurik, lwang, mrezanin, pbonzini, plougher, pmatouse, ppandit, rkrcmar, rvrbovsk, security-response-team
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Bug Depends On: 1012958, 1012959, 1017843    
Bug Blocks: 1012558    

Description Vincent Danen 2013-09-26 15:52:00 UTC 
The emulation of the outs instruction for 64-bit PV guests uses an
uninitialized variable as the segment base for the source data if an FS: or
GS: segment override is used, and if the segment descriptor the respective
non-null selector in the corresponding selector register points to cannot be
read by the emulation code (this is possible if the segment register was
loaded before a more recent GDT or LDT update, i.e. the segment register
contains stale data).

A malicious guest might be able to get hold of contents of the hypervisor
stack, through the fault address passed to the page fault handler if the outs
raises such a fault (which is mostly under guest control). Other methods for
indirectly deducing information also exist.

A malicious 64-bit PV guest might conceivably gain access to sensitive data
relating to other guests.


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.
Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2013-10-10 16:19:57 UTC 
External References:

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-67.html
Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2013-10-10 16:22:34 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1017843]
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-22 17:31:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1449 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1449.html
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-10-23 03:34:09 UTC 
xen-4.2.3-4.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-10-23 03:41:03 UTC 
xen-4.2.3-4.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.