Bug 1140266 (CVE-2014-7155) - CVE-2014-7155 kernel: xen: Missing privilege level checks in x86 HLT, LGDT, LIDT, and LMSW emulation (XSA-105)
Summary: CVE-2014-7155 kernel: xen: Missing privilege level checks in x86 HLT, LGDT, L...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-7155
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: 1145737
Blocks: 1140259
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Reported: 2014-09-10 15:32 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-12 05:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-09-10 15:34:32 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2014-09-10 15:32:11 UTC 
The emulation of the instructions HLT, LGDT, LIDT, and LMSW fails to
perform supervisor mode permission checks.

Malicious HVM guest user mode code may be able to crash the guest or
escalate its own privilege to guest kernel mode.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen for reporting this issue.
Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2014-09-10 15:34:32 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Comment 4 Petr Matousek 2014-09-23 15:22:14 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1145737]
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