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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:07:59 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@....org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: xen DoS
On 03/17/2011 03:09 PM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-unstable.hg/rev/c79aae866ad8
>
> Citing https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679344:
> "The problem is that a 64-bit guest can get one of its vcpus into
> non-kernel mode without first providing a valid non-kernel pagetable.
> The iret-into-userspace path has the right checks, but just setting the
> context on a fresh vcpu doesn't. :( The observed failure mode is
> usually a hard lockup of the host."
Please use CVE-2011-1166.
Eugene
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