Bug 1160643 (CVE-2014-8595, xsa110) - CVE-2014-8595 kernel: xen: Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of far branches (xsa110)
Summary: CVE-2014-8595 kernel: xen: Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-8595, xsa110
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1165204
Blocks: 1160648
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Reported: 2014-11-05 10:11 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-12 05:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-11-05 10:14:48 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2014-11-05 10:11:49 UTC 
The emulation of far branch instructions (CALL, JMP, and RETF in Intel
assembly syntax, LCALL, LJMP, and LRET in AT&T assembly syntax)
incompletely performs privilege checks.

Malicious HVM guest user mode code may be able to elevate its
privileges to guest supervisor mode, or to crash the guest.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen for reporting this issue.
Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2014-11-05 10:14:48 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2014-11-18 14:44:42 UTC 
External References:

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-110.html
Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2014-11-18 14:45:41 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1165204]
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