oss-security - Re: Xen Security Advisory 378 v3 (CVE-2021-28694,CVE-2021-28695,CVE-2021-28696)

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 09:22:14 -0400
From: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@...il.com>
To: "Xen.org security team" <security@....org>
Cc: xen-announce@...ts.xen.org, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org, 
	xen-users@...ts.xen.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, 
	"Xen.org security team" <security-team-members@....org>
Subject: Re: Xen Security Advisory 378 v3 (CVE-2021-28694,CVE-2021-28695,CVE-2021-28696)
 - IOMMU page mapping issues on x86

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:34 AM Xen.org security team <security@....org> wrote:
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>  Xen Security Advisory CVE-2021-28694,CVE-2021-28695,CVE-2021-28696 / XSA-378
>                                    version 3
>
>                    IOMMU page mapping issues on x86
>
> UPDATES IN VERSION 3
> ====================
>
> Warn about dom0=pvh breakage in Resolution section.
>
> ISSUE DESCRIPTION
> =================
>
> Both AMD and Intel allow ACPI tables to specify regions of memory
> which should be left untranslated, which typically means these
> addresses should pass the translation phase unaltered.  While these
> are typically device specific ACPI properties, they can also be
> specified to apply to a range of devices, or even all devices.
>
> On all systems with such regions Xen failed to prevent guests from
> undoing/replacing such mappings (CVE-2021-28694).

Hi,

Is there a way to identify if a system's ACPI tables have untranslated
regions?  Does it show up in xen or linux dmesg or can it be
identified in sysfs?

Thanks,
Jason

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