Bug 953632 (CVE-2013-1964) - CVE-2013-1964 xen: grant table hypercall acquire/release imbalance
Summary: CVE-2013-1964 xen: grant table hypercall acquire/release imbalance
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-1964
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: 953633
Blocks: 953634
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Reported: 2013-04-18 18:06 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-11 22:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-06-06 16:22:08 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2013-04-18 18:06:26 UTC 
When releasing a non-v1 non-transitive grant after doing a grant copy operation, Xen incorrectly recurses (as if for a transitive grant) and releases an unrelated grant reference.

A malicious guest administrator can cause undefined behaviour; depending on the dom0 kernel a host crash is possible, but information leakage or privilege escalation cannot be ruled out.

References:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/9978

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Red Hat would like to thank the Xen for reporting this issue.
Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2013-04-18 18:07:20 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 the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as we did not have support for Xen hypervisor.
Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2013-04-18 18:08:32 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 953633]
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-05-05 02:24:52 UTC 
xen-4.1.5-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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