[Xen-announce] Xen Security Advisory 18 (CVE-2012-3516) - grant table entry swaps have inadequate bounds checking

[Xen.org security team <security@xxxxxxx>]

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            Xen Security Advisory CVE-2012-3516 / XSA-18
                           version 2

       grant table entry swaps have inadequate bounds checking

UPDATES IN VERSION 2
====================

Public release.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION
=================

The grant table hypercall's GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref sub-operation does
not perform adequate checks on the input grant references.

IMPACT
======

A malicious guest kernel or administrator can crash the host.

It may be possible for an attacker to swap a valid grant reference,
which they control, with an invalid one allowing them to write
abitrary values to hypervisor memory. This could potentially lead to a
privilege escalation.

VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
==================

Xen-unstable, including Xen 4.2 release candidates are vulnerable to
this issue.

Xen 4.1 and earlier do not include this hypercall and are therefore
not vulnerable.

MITIGATION
==========

The only mitigation is not to run guests which have untrusted
administrators.

RESOLUTION
==========

Applying the attached patch will resolve the issue.

PATCH INFORMATION
=================

The attached patch resolves this issue

    Xen unstable                               xsa18-unstable.patch

$ sha256sum xsa18-unstable.patch
ad354a1964fc52b0e48d405514156935cc8dfcb5bdaee307e3e74afcc0ca8914  
xsa18-unstable.patch
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