Bug 964264 (CVE-2013-2078)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2078 kernel: xen: Hypervisor crash due to missing exception recovery on XSETBV
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	drjones, imammedo, pbonzini, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	970202
Bug Blocks:	964266

Description Petr Matousek 2013-05-17 16:53:34 UTC

Processors do certain validity checks on the register values passed to XSETBV. For the PV emulation path for that instruction the hypervisor code didn't check for certain invalid bit combinations, thus exposing itself to a fault occurring when invoking that instruction on behalf of the guest.

Malicious or buggy unprivileged user space can cause the entire host to crash.

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2013-05-17 16:57:14 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 4 Petr Matousek 2013-06-03 16:50:54 UTC

Now public via:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/03/3

Comment 5 Petr Matousek 2013-06-03 16:51:57 UTC

Created xen tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 970202]

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-06-13 06:50:40 UTC

xen-4.2.2-6.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-06-14 02:28:35 UTC

xen-4.2.2-6.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-06-16 05:44:21 UTC

xen-4.1.5-5.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.