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Michał Pałka 80e0cda7ff xen: patch for XSAs: 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, and 224
XSA-216 Issue Description:

> The block interface response structure has some discontiguous fields.
> Certain backends populate the structure fields of an otherwise
> uninitialized instance of this structure on their stacks, leaking
> data through the (internal or trailing) padding field.

More: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-216.html

XSA-217 Issue Description:

> Domains controlling other domains are permitted to map pages owned by
> the domain being controlled.  If the controlling domain unmaps such a
> page without flushing the TLB, and if soon after the domain being
> controlled transfers this page to another PV domain (via
> GNTTABOP_transfer or, indirectly, XENMEM_exchange), and that third
> domain uses the page as a page table, the controlling domain will have
> write access to a live page table until the applicable TLB entry is
> flushed or evicted.  Note that the domain being controlled is
> necessarily HVM, while the controlling domain is PV.

More: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-217.html

XSA-218 Issue Description:

> We have discovered two bugs in the code unmapping grant references.
>
> * When a grant had been mapped twice by a backend domain, and then
> unmapped by two concurrent unmap calls, the frontend may be informed
> that the page had no further mappings when the first call completed rather
> than when the second call completed.
>
> * A race triggerable by an unprivileged guest could cause a grant
> maptrack entry for grants to be "freed" twice.  The ultimate effect of
> this would be for maptrack entries for a single domain to be re-used.

More: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.html

XSA-219 Issue Description:

> When using shadow paging, writes to guest pagetables must be trapped and
> emulated, so the shadows can be suitably adjusted as well.
>
> When emulating the write, Xen maps the guests pagetable(s) to make the final
> adjustment and leave the guest's view of its state consistent.
>
> However, when mapping the frame, Xen drops the page reference before
> performing the write.  This is a race window where the underlying frame can
> change ownership.
>
> One possible attack scenario is for the frame to change ownership and to be
> inserted into a PV guest's pagetables.  At that point, the emulated write will
> be an unaudited modification to the PV pagetables whose value is under guest
> control.

More: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html

XSA-220 Issue Description:

> Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) are features in
> newer processors, whose state is intended to be per-thread and context
> switched along with all other XSAVE state.
>
> Xen's vCPU context switch code would save and restore the state only
> if the guest had set the relevant XSTATE enable bits.  However,
> surprisingly, the use of these features is not dependent (PKU) or may
> not be dependent (MPX) on having the relevant XSTATE bits enabled.
>
> VMs which use MPX or PKU, and context switch the state manually rather
> than via XSAVE, will have the state leak between vCPUs (possibly,
> between vCPUs in different guests).  This in turn corrupts state in
> the destination vCPU, and hence may lead to weakened protections
>
> Experimentally, MPX appears not to make any interaction with BND*
> state if BNDCFGS.EN is set but XCR0.BND{CSR,REGS} are clear.  However,
> the SDM is not clear in this case; therefore MPX is included in this
> advisory as a precaution.

More: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-220.html

XSA-221 Issue Description:

> When polling event channels, in general arbitrary port numbers can be
> specified.  Specifically, there is no requirement that a polled event
> channel ports has ever been created.  When the code was generalised
> from an earlier implementation, introducing some intermediate
> pointers, a check should have been made that these intermediate
> pointers are non-NULL.  However, that check was omitted.

More: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-221.html

XSA-222 Issue Description:

> Certain actions require removing pages from a guest's P2M
> (Physical-to-Machine) mapping.  When large pages are in use to map
> guest pages in the 2nd-stage page tables, such a removal operation may
> incur a memory allocation (to replace a large mapping with individual
> smaller ones).  If this allocation fails, these errors are ignored by
> the callers, which would then continue and (for example) free the
> referenced page for reuse.  This leaves the guest with a mapping to a
> page it shouldn't have access to.
>
> The allocation involved comes from a separate pool of memory created
> when the domain is created; under normal operating conditions it never
> fails, but a malicious guest may be able to engineer situations where
> this pool is exhausted.

More: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-222.html

XSA-224 Issue Description:

> We have discovered a number of bugs in the code mapping and unmapping
> grant references.
>
> * If a grant is mapped with both the GNTMAP_device_map and
> GNTMAP_host_map flags, but unmapped only with host_map, the device_map
> portion remains but the page reference counts are lowered as though it
> had been removed. This bug can be leveraged cause a page's reference
> counts and type counts to fall to zero while retaining writeable
> mappings to the page.
>
> * Under some specific conditions, if a grant is mapped with both the
> GNTMAP_device_map and GNTMAP_host_map flags, the operation may not
> grab sufficient type counts.  When the grant is then unmapped, the
> type count will be erroneously reduced.  This bug can be leveraged
> cause a page's reference counts and type counts to fall to zero while
> retaining writeable mappings to the page.
>
> * When a grant reference is given to an MMIO region (as opposed to a
> normal guest page), if the grant is mapped with only the
> GNTMAP_device_map flag set, a mapping is created at host_addr anyway.
> This does *not* cause reference counts to change, but there will be no
> record of this mapping, so it will not be considered when reporting
> whether the grant is still in use.

More: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-224.html
2017-06-26 07:01:24 +00:00
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aliases.nix wine: reorganize packages 2017-06-04 00:57:45 +03:00
all-packages.nix xen: patch for XSAs: 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, and 224 2017-06-26 07:01:24 +00:00
beam-packages.nix beam-packages: add erlangR20 2017-06-23 19:42:31 +02:00
default.nix Fix typo in comment 2017-04-19 20:30:44 +02:00
dotnet-packages.nix fsharp: 4.0.1.1 -> 4.1.7 2017-04-17 10:39:38 +02:00
emacs-packages.nix melpa-packages: init w3m at 20170203.647 2017-02-10 13:11:45 -06:00
emscripten-packages.nix libxml2: supportPython -> pythonSupport 2016-11-08 17:10:05 +01:00
haskell-packages.nix ghc821: init at 8.2.1-rc2 (a.k.a., 8.2.0.20170507) 2017-06-15 19:59:38 +02:00
impure.nix impure.nix: add crossSystem as arg 2017-04-29 15:22:33 -05:00
java-packages.nix Complete hello world with test 2016-11-15 14:18:19 -05:00
lua-packages.nix luaPackages.vicious 2.1.3 -> 2.2.0 2017-03-30 20:27:57 +02:00
make-tarball.nix lib: Consolidate tests into one meta job 2017-05-17 11:14:59 -04:00
metrics.nix
node-packages-generated.nix nodePackages.bower2nix: 3.0.1 -> 3.1.1 2016-09-15 01:28:37 +01:00
node-packages.json yarn: init at 0.17.8 (#20635) 2016-12-14 15:46:45 +01:00
node-packages.nix
ocaml-packages.nix ocamlPackages.core_bench: fix on OCaml ≥ 4.03 2017-06-26 07:57:17 +02:00
perl-packages.nix perl-packages: fix typo in comment (#26819) 2017-06-24 16:25:19 +01:00
php-packages.nix phpPackages.composer: 1.3.2 -> 1.4.1 2017-03-24 22:16:10 +01:00
pure-packages.nix purePackages.octave: Use octaveHg 2017-04-09 21:54:39 +10:00
python-packages.nix pythonPackages.pylast: 0.5.11 -> 1.8.0 (#26825) 2017-06-25 08:32:05 +01:00
release-cross.nix lib: Consolidate platform configurations (used for crossSystem) 2017-05-29 18:56:03 -04:00
release-lib.nix Merge pull request #24610 from Ericson2314/platform-normalization 2017-04-17 17:28:01 -04:00
release-python.nix top-level: Less indirection for lib in release*.nix 2017-04-17 17:13:01 -04:00
release-small.nix top-level: Less indirection for lib in release*.nix 2017-04-17 17:13:01 -04:00
release.nix Merge branch 'master' into staging 2017-05-18 11:24:18 +02:00
rust-packages.nix rustRegistry: switch to mkDerivation 2017-06-25 11:56:29 +01:00
splice.nix top-level: Introduce targetPackages and a "double link fold" 2017-04-23 14:01:12 -04:00
stage.nix top-level: stdenv.cross is now only defined with host != build 2017-04-24 16:12:26 -04:00