[Xen-announce] Xen Security Advisory 225 - arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs

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                    Xen Security Advisory XSA-225
                              version 2

           arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs

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

Public release.

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

ARM guests can send SGI (i.e. IPI) targeting a list of vCPUs using the
MMIO register GICD_SGIR (GICv2) or System Register ICC_SGI1R (GICv3).
However, the emulation code does not sanitize the list and will
directly access an array without checking whether the array index is
within bounds.

IMPACT
======

A guest may cause a hypervisor crash, resulting in a Denial of Service
(DoS).

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

Xen versions 4.6 and onwards are affected.  Xen versions 4.5 and
earlier are not affected.

Only ARM systems are affected.  x86 systems are not affected.

MITIGATION
==========

On systems where the guest kernel is controlled by the host rather than
guest administrator, running only kernels which only send sane IPIs
(i.e. targeting valid CPUs) will prevent untrusted guest users from
exploiting this issue.  However untrusted guest administrators can
still trigger it unless further steps are taken to prevent them from
loading code into the kernel (e.g by disabling loadable modules etc) or
from using other mechanisms which allow them to run code at kernel
privilege.

CREDITS
=======

This issue was discovered by Julien Grall of ARM.

RESOLUTION
==========

Applying the attached patch resolves this issue.

xsa225.patch           xen-unstable, Xen 4.8.x, Xen 4.7.x, Xen 4.6.x

$ sha256sum xsa225*
a52d90a2586b74d6dd0d17390c940bf414c1332a6b4ccb87f10b7d97af3b3877  xsa225.patch
$

DEPLOYMENT DURING EMBARGO
=========================

Deployment of the patches and/or mitigations described above (or
others which are substantially similar) is permitted during the
embargo, even on public-facing systems with untrusted guest users and
administrators.

But: Distribution of updated software is prohibited (except to other
members of the predisclosure list).

Predisclosure list members who wish to deploy significantly different
patches and/or mitigations, please contact the Xen Project Security
Team.

(Note: this during-embargo deployment notice is retained in
post-embargo publicly released Xen Project advisories, even though it
is then no longer applicable.  This is to enable the community to have
oversight of the Xen Project Security Team's decisionmaking.)

For more information about permissible uses of embargoed information,
consult the Xen Project community's agreed Security Policy:
  http://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html
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