Bug 1905656 (CVE-2020-29567) - CVE-2020-29567 xen: infinite loop when cleaning up IRQ vectors (XSA-356)
Summary: CVE-2020-29567 xen: infinite loop when cleaning up IRQ vectors (XSA-356)
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-29567
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1907932
Blocks: 1903644
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-12-08 18:42 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-02-16 18:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-12-15 22:19:58 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-12-08 18:42:07 UTC
When moving IRQs between CPUs to distribute the load of IRQ handling,
IRQ vectors are dynamically allocated and de-allocated on the relevant
CPUs.  De-allocation has to happen when certain constraints are met.
If these conditions are not met when first checked, the checking CPU
may send an interrupt to itself, in the expectation that this IRQ will
be delivered only after the condition preventing the cleanup has
cleared.  For two specific IRQ vectors this expectation was violated,
resulting in a continuous stream of self-interrupts, which renders the
CPU effectively unusable.

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-12-15 14:33:06 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1907932]

Comment 2 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-12-15 16:25:20 UTC
External References:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/15/15

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-12-15 22:19:58 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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