Bug 656206 (CVE-2010-4247) - CVE-2010-4247 xen: request-processing loop is unbounded in blkback
Summary: CVE-2010-4247 xen: request-processing loop is unbounded in blkback
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-4247
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 654546 656208
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-23 08:32 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:41 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-07-29 13:23:13 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0004 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2011-01-04 16:52:05 UTC

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-11-23 08:32:02 UTC 
If the frontend pass a bad index of production request, the backend will enter an endless loop and then cause a excessive CPU consumption.

This issue has been fixed in upstream by:
changeset:   391:77f831cbb91d
user:        Keir Fraser <keir.fraser>
date:        Fri Jan 18 16:52:25 2008 +0000
summary:     blkback: Request-processing loop is unbounded and hence requires a
http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/77f831cbb91d

changeset:   392:7070d34f251c
user:        Keir Fraser <keir.fraser>
date:        Mon Jan 21 11:43:31 2008 +0000
summary:     blkback/blktap: Check for kthread_should_stop() in inner loop,
http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/7070d34f251c

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.18-194.el5xen

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build a guest kernel with the patch attached.
2. run domU with the patched kernel

Actual results:
Dom0 got hung.

Expected results:
Dom0 shouldn't be impacted by a bad guest.
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-04 16:53:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0004 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html
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