Bug 851165 (CVE-2012-3495) - CVE-2012-3495 kernel: xen: hypercall physdev_get_free_pirq vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2012-3495 kernel: xen: hypercall physdev_get_free_pirq vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-3495
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: 854589
Blocks: 851204
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Reported: 2012-08-23 11:55 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:59:09 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2012-08-23 11:55:46 UTC
PHYSDEVOP_get_free_pirq does not check that its call to get_free_pirq succeeded, and if it fails will use the error code as an array index.

A malicious guest might be able to cause the host to crash, leading to a DoS, depending on the exact memory layout.  Privilege escalation is a theoretical possibility which cannot be ruled out, but is considered unlikely

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Matthew Daley as the original reporter.

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2012-08-23 11:57:31 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 2012-09-05 11:43:07 UTC
Now public via:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/377

Comment 5 Petr Matousek 2012-09-05 11:44:35 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 854589]

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 17:59:57 UTC
xen-4.1.3-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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