Bug 1355987 – CVE-2016-6258 xsa182 xen: x86: Privilege escalation in PV guests (XSA-182)

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Bug 1355987 - (CVE-2016-6258, xsa182) CVE-2016-6258 xsa182 xen: x86: Privilege escalation in PV guests (XSA-182)

Summary:	CVE-2016-6258 xsa182 xen: x86: Privilege escalation in PV guests (XSA-182)

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-6258, xsa182

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1360358
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Reported:	2016-07-13 04:32 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2016-08-08 19:53 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found Xen's MMU emulation for x86 PV guests. A malicious administrator of an x86 PV guest could control some of the page table bits, allowing potential control of memory and code execution in the host. x86 HVM and ARM guests could not exploit this flaw.
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Last Closed:	2016-07-26 09:47:48 EDT
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Xen 4.5 patch (4.10 KB, patch) 2016-07-13 04:33 EDT, Adam Mariš	no flags	Details \| Diff
Xen 4.6 patch (4.13 KB, patch) 2016-07-13 04:33 EDT, Adam Mariš	no flags	Details \| Diff
xen-unstable patch (4.17 KB, patch) 2016-07-13 04:34 EDT, Adam Mariš	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-07-13 04:32:39 EDT

ISSUE DESCRIPTION
=================

The PV pagetable code has fast-paths for making updates to pre-existing
pagetable entries, to skip expensive re-validation in safe cases
(e.g. clearing only Access/Dirty bits).  The bits considered safe were too
broad, and not actually safe.

IMPACT
======

A malicous PV guest administrator can escalate their privilege to that
of the host.

VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
==================

All versions of Xen are vulnerable.

The vulnerability is only exposed to PV guests on x86 hardware.

The vulnerability is not exposed to x86 HVM guests, or ARM guests.

MITIGATION
==========

Running only HVM guests will avoid this vulnerability.

External References:

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-182.html

Acknowledgements:

Name: the Xen project

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-07-13 04:33 EDT

Created attachment 1179130 [details]
Xen 4.5 patch

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-07-13 04:33 EDT

Created attachment 1179131 [details]
Xen 4.6 patch

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-07-13 04:34 EDT

Created attachment 1179132 [details]
xen-unstable patch

Comment 4 Andrej Nemec 2016-07-21 07:21:46 EDT

CVE-2016-6258 was assigned to this issue.

Comment 5 Adam Mariš 2016-07-26 09:45:15 EDT

Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1360358]

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-08-05 16:54:38 EDT

xen-4.6.3-4.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-08-08 19:53:44 EDT

xen-4.5.3-9.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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