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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:30:43 +0100
From: Xen.org security team <security@....org>
To: xen-announce@...ts.xensource.com,
    xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
    xen-users@...ts.xensource.com,
    oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Xen Security Advisory 10 - HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS

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                 Xen Security Advisory XSA-10

	 HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS vulnerability

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

Internal data of the emulator for MMIO operations may, under
certain rare conditions, at the end of one emulation cycle be left
in a state affecting a subsequent emulation such that this second
emulation would fail, causing an exception to be reported to the
guest kernel where none is expected.

IMPACT
======

Guest mode unprivileged (user) code, which has been granted
the privilege to access MMIO regions, may leverage that access
to crash the whole guest.

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

All HVM guests exposing MMIO ranges to unprivileged (user) mode.

All versions of Xen which support HVM guests are vulnerable to this issue.

MITIGATION
==========

This issue can be mitigated by running PV (para-virtualised)
guests only, or by ensuring (inside the guest) that MMIO regions
can be accessed only by trustworthy processes.

RESOLUTION
==========

Applying the appropriate attached patch will resolve the issue.

NOTE REGARDING CVE
==================

We do not yet have a CVE Candidate number for this vulnerability.

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

The attached patches resolve this issue

$ sha256sum xsa10-*.patch
f96b7849194901d7f663895f88c2ca4f4721559f1c1fe13bba515336437ab912  xsa10-4.x.patch
fb9dead017dfea99ad3e8d928582e67160c76518b7fe207d9a3324811baf06dd  xsa10-unstable.patch
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Download attachment "xsa10-unstable.patch" of type "application/octet-stream" (1086 bytes)

Download attachment "xsa10-4.x.patch" of type "application/octet-stream" (1130 bytes)

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