An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing...
Low severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 29, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 14, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 29, 2023
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of bad continuation handling in GNTTABOP_copy. Grant table operations are expected to return 0 for success, and a negative number for errors. The fix for CVE-2017-12135 introduced a path through grant copy handling where success may be returned to the caller without any action taken. In particular, the status fields of individual operations are left uninitialised, and may result in errant behaviour in the caller of GNTTABOP_copy. A buggy or malicious guest can construct its grant table in such a way that, when a backend domain tries to copy a grant, it hits the incorrect exit path. This returns success to the caller without doing anything, which may cause crashes or other incorrect behaviour.
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