Bug 1679328 (CVE-2019-17342)

Summary: CVE-2019-17342 xen: xsa287: steal_page violates page_struct access discipline
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: ailan, drjones, imammedo, jforbes, knoel, m.a.young, mrezanin, pbonzini, rkrcmar, robinlee.sysu, security-response-team, vkuznets, xen-maint
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-02-20 22:02:55 UTC
Xen's reference counting rules were designed to allow pages to change
owner and state without requiring a global lock. Each page has a page
structure, and a very specific set of access disciplines must be
observed to ensure that pages are freed properly, and that no writable
mappings exist for PV pagetable pages.

Unfortunately, when the XENMEM_exchange hypercall was introduced,
these access disciplines were violated, opening up several potential
race conditions.

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2019-03-05 14:22:19 UTC
References:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q1/160

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2019-03-05 14:26:28 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1685577]