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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:25:58 +0000
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To: <cve-assign@...re.org>
Cc: <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,<security@....org>
Subject: Re: Xen Security Advisory 84 - integer overflow in several
XSM/Flask hypercalls
>>> On 06.02.14 at 18:23, <cve-assign@...re.org> wrote:
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> We can provide the three CVE assignments for XSA-84 (as well as the
> one CVE assignment for XSA-85 and the one CVE assignment for XSA-86).
> However, could you please clarify:
>
>> http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-84.html
>
>> UPDATES IN VERSION 2
>> ====================
>>
>> Public release.
>>
>> The patch for 4.1 was extended to cover a few further similar issues.
>
> Here, was the original scope of "The patch for 4.1" (before it was
> extended) exclusively:
>
> "a different overflow issue on FLASK_{GET,SET}BOOL and expose
> unreasonably large memory allocation to arbitrary guests"
>
> ? Or do you mean that, originally, the "patch for 4.1" addressed
> another vulnerability, and this "different overflow issue" was one of
> the version-2 extensions to the scope of XSA-84?
The original patch was dealing with just the unbounded memory
allocation. The missing bounds checking was what the incremental
addition dealt with.
Jan
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