Bug 910903 (CVE-2013-0153) - CVE-2013-0153 kernel: xen: interrupt remap entries shared and old ones not cleared on AMD IOMMUs
Summary: CVE-2013-0153 kernel: xen: interrupt remap entries shared and old ones not cl...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-0153
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: 910912 910913 910914
Blocks: 910879 957090
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Reported: 2013-02-13 20:10 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-11 21:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-05-21 21:09:55 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0847 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update 2013-05-21 23:19:21 UTC

Description Petr Matousek 2013-02-13 20:10:14 UTC
To avoid an erratum in early hardware, the Xen AMD IOMMU code by default chooses to use a single interrupt remapping table for the whole system.  This sharing implies that any guest with a passed through PCI device that is bus mastering capable can inject interrupts into other guests, including domain 0.

Furthermore, regardless of whether a shared interrupt remapping table is in use, old entries are not always cleared, providing opportunities (which accumulate over time) for guests to inject interrupts into other guests, again including domain 0. 

In a typical Xen system many devices are owned by domain 0 or driver domains, leaving them vulnerable to such an attack. Such a DoS is likely to have an impact on other guests running in the system. 

A malicious domain which is given access to a physical PCI device can mount a denial of service attack affecting the whole system.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2013-02-13 20:21:40 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 910914]

Comment 4 Petr Matousek 2013-02-13 20:32:18 UTC
Statement:

This issue did 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 2.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-02-16 01:24:07 UTC
xen-4.1.4-4.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-02-18 06:49:28 UTC
xen-4.2.1-7.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-21 19:20:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0847 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0847.html


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