Bug 855140 (CVE-2012-4411)

Summary: CVE-2012-4411 xen: qemu: guest administrator can access qemu monitor console
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: agordeev, anton, berrange, dhoward, drjones, imammedo, jforbes, kraxel, lersek, lwang, m.a.young, mrezanin, pbonzini, plougher, rcvalle, sforsber, tburke, virt-maint, xen-maint
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Bug Depends On: 855141    
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Description Petr Matousek 2012-09-06 19:18:57 UTC
A guest administrator who is granted access to the graphical console
of a Xen guest can access the qemu monitor.  The monitor can be used
to access host resources.

A malicious guest administrator can access host resources (perhaps
belonging to other guests or the underlying system) and may be able to
escalate their privilege to that of the host.

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/390

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2012-09-06 19:20:58 UTC
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as we did not have support for Xen hypervisor.

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2012-09-06 19:21:54 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 855141]

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 17:45:13 UTC
xen-4.1.3-4.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 18:00:45 UTC
xen-4.1.3-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 23:19:07 UTC
xen-4.1.3-4.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.