Bug 1012582 (CVE-2013-4371) - CVE-2013-4371 xen: use-after-free in libxl_list_cpupool under memory pressure (XSA-70)
Summary: CVE-2013-4371 xen: use-after-free in libxl_list_cpupool under memory pressure...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-4371
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1017843
Blocks: 1012558
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Reported: 2013-09-26 16:38 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2023-05-12 00:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-09-26 16:39:09 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2013-09-26 16:38:35 UTC
If realloc(3) fails then libxl_list_cpupool will incorrectly return
the now-free original pointer.

An attacker may be able to cause a multithreaded toolstack using this
function to race against itself leading to heap corruption and a
potential DoS.

Depending on the malloc implementation code execution cannot be ruled
out.


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-09-26 16:39:09 UTC
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue does not affect the versions of the xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it does not provide support for the libxl toolstack.

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2013-10-10 15:40:19 UTC
External References:

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-70.html

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-10-10 15:41:58 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1017843]


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