CVE-2012-5510

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Technical Information On Vulnerabilities Of Hypercall Handlers

Posted Sep 23, 2014

Authored by Samuel Kounev, Bryan D. Payne, Aleksandar Milenkoski, Nuno Antunes, Marco Vieira | Site research.spec.org

Modern virtualized service infrastructures expose attack vectors that enable attacks of high severity, such as attacks targeting hypervisors. A malicious user of a guest VM (virtual machine) may execute an attack against the underlying hypervisor via hypercalls, which are software traps from a kernel of a fully or partially paravirtualized guest VM to the hypervisor. The exploitation of a vulnerability of a hypercall handler may have severe consequences such as altering hypervisor's memory, which may result in the execution of malicious code with hypervisor privilege. Despite the importance of vulnerabilities of hypercall handlers, there is not much publicly available information on them. This significantly hinders advances towards securing hypercall interfaces. In this work, the researchers provide in-depth technical information on publicly disclosed vulnerabilities of hypercall handlers. Our vulnerability analysis is based on reverse engineering the released patches fixing the considered vulnerabilities. For each analyzed vulnerability, they provide background information essential for understanding the vulnerability, and information on the vulnerable hypercall handler and the error causing the vulnerability. The researchers also show how the vulnerability can be triggered and discuss the state of the targeted hypervisor after the vulnerability has been triggered.

tags | paper, kernel, vulnerability

advisories | CVE-2012-3494, CVE-2012-3495, CVE-2012-3496, CVE-2012-4539, CVE-2012-5510, CVE-2012-5513, CVE-2012-5525, CVE-2013-1964

SHA-256 | 7d90e4303005df5faec215e49bc919db7d1f13c6388d0b7871bb45c646e2e92a

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-24

Posted Sep 27, 2013

Authored by Gentoo | Site security.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-24 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, allowing attackers on a Xen Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, or gain access to data on the host. Versions less than 4.2.2-r1 are affected.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, vulnerability

systems | linux, gentoo

advisories | CVE-2011-2901, CVE-2011-3262, CVE-2011-3262, CVE-2012-0217, CVE-2012-0218, CVE-2012-2934, CVE-2012-3432, CVE-2012-3433, CVE-2012-3494, CVE-2012-3495, CVE-2012-3496, CVE-2012-3497, CVE-2012-3498, CVE-2012-3515, CVE-2012-4411, CVE-2012-4535, CVE-2012-4536, CVE-2012-4537, CVE-2012-4538, CVE-2012-4539, CVE-2012-5510, CVE-2012-5511, CVE-2012-5512, CVE-2012-5513, CVE-2012-5514, CVE-2012-5515, CVE-2012-5525, CVE-2012-5634

SHA-256 | 42fbd346dc4e79100c814835fd5068ef0a6bd2ccc23977307e7f191f8be1cc22

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Debian Security Advisory 2582-1

Posted Dec 7, 2012

Authored by Debian | Site debian.org

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2582-1 - Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in the xen hypervisor. One of the issues (CVE-2012-5513) could even lead to privilege escalation from guest to host.

tags | advisory, denial of service, vulnerability

systems | linux, debian

advisories | CVE-2011-3131, CVE-2012-4535, CVE-2012-4537, CVE-2012-4538, CVE-2012-4539, CVE-2012-5510, CVE-2012-5513, CVE-2012-5514, CVE-2012-5515

SHA-256 | b1312d0fb2c22ab833dd73443d88403b729149ad1657106606fb476a56d90894

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