Bug 1823783 (CVE-2020-11739) - CVE-2020-11739 xen: missing memory barriers in read-write unlock paths (XSA-314)
Summary: CVE-2020-11739 xen: missing memory barriers in read-write unlock paths (XSA-314)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-11739
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1823784
Blocks: 1823785
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Reported: 2020-04-14 13:50 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-07-16 16:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-04-16 14:22:08 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-04-14 13:50:02 UTC 
The read-write unlock paths don't contain a memory barrier. On Arm, this means a processor is allowed to re-order the memory access with the preceding ones.

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https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-314.html
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-04-14 13:50:23 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1823784]
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