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Xen Security Advisory CVE-2013-4369 / XSA-68 version 2
possible null dereference when parsing vif ratelimiting info
UPDATES IN VERSION 2 ====================
Public release.
ISSUE DESCRIPTION =================
The libxlu library function xlu_vif_parse_rate does not properly handle inputs which consist solely of the '@' character, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.
IMPACT ======
A toolstack which allows untrusted users to specify an arbitrary configuration for the VIF rate can be subjected to a DOS.
The only known user of this library is the xl toolstack which does not have a central long running daemon and therefore the impact is limited to crashing the process which is creating the domain, which exists only to service a single domain.
VULNERABLE SYSTEMS ==================
The vulnerable code is present from Xen 4.2 onwards.
MITIGATION ==========
Disallowing untrusted users from specifying arbitrary VIF rate limits will avoid this issue.
CREDITS =======
This issue was discovered by Coverity Scan and Matthew Daley.
RESOLUTION ==========
Applying the attached patch resolves this issue in all branches
xsa68.patch xen-unstable, Xen 4.3.x, Xen 4.2.x
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