Bug 855140 (CVE-2012-4411) - CVE-2012-4411 xen: qemu: guest administrator can access qemu monitor console
Summary: CVE-2012-4411 xen: qemu: guest administrator can access qemu monitor console
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-4411
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 855141
Blocks: 855143
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Reported: 2012-09-06 19:18 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-24 13:58:14 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2012-09-06 19:18:57 UTC 
A guest administrator who is granted access to the graphical console
of a Xen guest can access the qemu monitor.  The monitor can be used
to access host resources.

A malicious guest administrator can access host resources (perhaps
belonging to other guests or the underlying system) and may be able to
escalate their privilege to that of the host.

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/390

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.
Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2012-09-06 19:20:58 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 3 Petr Matousek 2012-09-06 19:21:54 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 855141]
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 17:45:13 UTC 
xen-4.1.3-4.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 18:00:45 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.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 23:19:07 UTC 
xen-4.1.3-4.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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