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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:48:03 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
Subject: CVE-2014-3690: KVM DoS triggerable by malicious host userspace
[sorry for somewhat late notice -- I didn't notice that the patch was
public until just now]
KVM has a bug that allows malicious host user code that can open the
/dev/kvm device on a VMX (Intel) machine to DoS the system. (In my
proof of concept, the DoS is a rather spectacular failure of the whole
system, although I haven't checked whether the kernel panics. A more
refined exploit *might* be able to kill targetted user processes, but
it would be tricky and is subject to possibly unavoidable races that
are likely to take down the whole system.)
This is *not* triggerable by a guest, although a guest that can
compromise its host QEMU could use this bug to take down everything
else running on the host.
I would guess that all kernels that support VMX are vulnerable, but I
haven't tested old kernels.
The fix is here:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a
PoC available upon request, and I'll post it publicly in a few days,
because it's kind of fun to watch the fireworks.
--Andy
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