Bug 877404 (CVE-2012-5525) - CVE-2012-5525 kernel: xen: several hypercalls do not validate input GFNs
Summary: CVE-2012-5525 kernel: xen: several hypercalls do not validate input GFNs
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-5525
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 883094
Blocks: 877406
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Reported: 2012-11-16 12:39 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-24 14:03:31 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2012-11-16 12:39:45 UTC 
The function get_page_from_gfn does not validate its input GFN. An
invalid GFN passed to a hypercall which uses this function will cause
the hypervisor to read off the end of the frame table and potentially
crash.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
A malicious PV guest administrator can cause Xen to crash.
If the out of bounds access does not lead to a crash, a carefully
crafted privilege escalation cannot be excluded, even though the guest
doesn't itself control the values written.
 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.
Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2012-11-16 12:43:10 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 2012-12-03 18:26:45 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 883094]
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-12-12 00:16:33 UTC 
xen-4.2.0-6.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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