CVE-2020-11743
Published: 14 April 2020
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of a bad error path in GNTTABOP_map_grant. Grant table operations are expected to return 0 for success, and a negative number for errors. Some misplaced brackets cause one error path to return 1 instead of a negative value. The grant table code in Linux treats this condition as success, and proceeds with incorrectly initialised state. A buggy or malicious guest can construct its grant table in such a way that, when a backend domain tries to map a grant, it hits the incorrect error path. This will crash a Linux based dom0 or backend domain.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 5.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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xen Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
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| Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. | ||
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary |