-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Xen Security Advisory CVE-2017-7228 / XSA-212 version 3 x86: broken check in memory_exchange() permits PV guest breakout UPDATES IN VERSION 3 ==================== Public release. ISSUE DESCRIPTION ================= The XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays. IMPACT ====== A malicious or buggy 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information leaks. VULNERABLE SYSTEMS ================== All Xen versions are vulnerable. Only x86 systems are affected. ARM systems are not vulnerable. The vulnerability is only exposed to 64-bit PV guests. HVM guests and 32-bit PV guests can't exploit the vulnerability. MITIGATION ========== Running only HVM or 32-bit PV guests will avoid the vulnerability. The vulnerability can be avoided if the guest kernel is controlled by the host rather than guest administrator, provided that further steps are taken to prevent the guest administrator from loading code into the kernel (e.g. by disabling loadable modules etc) or from using other mechanisms which allow them to run code at kernel privilege. CREDITS ======= This issue was discovered by Jann Horn of Google Project Zero. RESOLUTION ========== Applying the attached patch resolves this issue. xsa212.patch xen-unstable, Xen 4.8.x, Xen 4.7.x, Xen 4.6.x, Xen 4.5.x, Xen 4.4.x
according to https://www.xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives/xen-project-48-series/xen-481.html XSA-212 patch is applied in 4.8.1 release.
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=06403aa5f28bf697051de0435ef942f4c0d25849
(In reply to Oleg from comment #1) yes, this should be already fixed at >=app-emulation/xen-4.7.2 >=app-emulation/xen-4.8.1 thanks
Oleg thank you for bringing it to our attention. Since our X86 version is not available (not keyword) this bug does not apply I am closing this bug and changing the whiteboard.
