Xen Security Advisory 358 v5 (CVE-2020-29570) - FIFO event channels control block related ordering

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            Xen Security Advisory CVE-2020-29570 / XSA-358
                               version 5

          FIFO event channels control block related ordering

UPDATES IN VERSION 5
====================

"Unstable" patch updated (needed re-basing).

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

Recording of the per-vCPU control block mapping maintained by Xen and
that of pointers into the control block is reversed.  The consumer
assumes, seeing the former initialized, that the latter are also ready
for use.

IMPACT
======

Malicious or buggy guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service (DoS)
attack affecting the entire system.

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

All Xen versions from 4.4 onwards are vulnerable.  Xen versions 4.3 and
earlier are not vulnerable.

MITIGATION
==========

There is no known mitigation.

CREDITS
=======

This issue was discovered by Julien Grall of Amazon.

RESOLUTION
==========

Applying the appropriate attached patch resolves this issue.

Note that patches for released versions are generally prepared to
apply to the stable branches, and may not apply cleanly to the most
recent release tarball.  Downstreams are encouraged to update to the
tip of the stable branch before applying these patches.

xsa358.patch           xen-unstable
xsa358-4.14.patch      Xen 4.14 - 4.10

$ sha256sum xsa358*
0e8428a52e9bedafb2d8cbbb8dffae4e882e4b0898e4e7df3576c99e0e607167  xsa358.meta
c0763c85287d138a02dc795aa5d2e903ca7efc641390bee53ea2f7473f4f95af  xsa358.patch
937a3786d3d0147aef63eed373ed1df9ede75d1fabf5ad8f6ccaacfbf7fbcf42  
xsa358-4.14.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is then no longer applicable.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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