Bug 1009553 (CVE-2013-4356) - CVE-2013-4356 Kernel: Xen: Xsa-64: memory leak by 64bit PV guests under live migration
Summary: CVE-2013-4356 Kernel: Xen: Xsa-64: memory leak by 64bit PV guests under live ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-4356
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1013748
Blocks: 1009004
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Reported: 2013-09-18 15:32 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2023-05-12 00:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-09-30 17:07:21 UTC
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Description Prasad Pandit 2013-09-18 15:32:26 UTC
On some hardware, during live migration of 64-bit PV guests, some
parts of the guest's shadow pagetables are mistakenly filled in with
hypervisor mappings. This causes Xen to crash when those mappings are
later cleared. Before the crash, a malicious guest could use
hypercalls to cause Xen to read and write the parts of memory pointed
to by the stray mappings.

A malicious 64-bit PV guest, on a vulnerable host system, that can arrange for
itself to be live migrated could use this flaw to read or write memory at the
high physical addresses on the host.

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2013-09-18 15:37:02 UTC
Statement:

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue does not affect the versions of the Linux kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as it does not have support for Xen hypervisor.

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2013-09-30 17:07:21 UTC
This is now public:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/30/2

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2013-09-30 17:13:28 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1013748]


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