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CVE-2020-11739

Status Candidate

Overview

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges because of missing memory barriers in read-write unlock paths. The read-write unlock paths don't contain a memory barrier. On Arm, this means a processor is allowed to re-order the memory access with the preceding ones. In other words, the unlock may be seen by another processor before all the memory accesses within the "critical" section. As a consequence, it may be possible to have a writer executing a critical section at the same time as readers or another writer. In other words, many of the assumptions (e.g., a variable cannot be modified after a check) in the critical sections are not safe anymore. The read-write locks are used in hypercalls (such as grant-table ones), so a malicious guest could exploit the race. For instance, there is a small window where Xen can leak memory if XENMAPSPACE_grant_table is used concurrently. A malicious guest may be able to leak memory, or cause a hypervisor crash resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Information leak and privilege escalation cannot be excluded.

Related Files

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5617-1
Posted Sep 19, 2022
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 5617-1 - It was discovered that memory contents previously stored in microarchitectural special registers after RDRAND, RDSEED, and SGX EGETKEY read operations on Intel client and Xeon E3 processors may be briefly exposed to processes on the same or different processor cores. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Julien Grall discovered that Xen incorrectly handled memory barriers on ARM-based systems. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information or escalate privileges.

tags | advisory, denial of service, local
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2020-0543, CVE-2020-11739, CVE-2020-11742, CVE-2020-15563, CVE-2020-15564, CVE-2020-15565, CVE-2020-15566, CVE-2020-15567, CVE-2020-25595, CVE-2020-25596, CVE-2020-25597, CVE-2020-25599, CVE-2020-25600, CVE-2020-25601
SHA-256 | 650005c21b26b7970b9035b36b8dca3aa7d9fbba307cbcf7d4eded34c754cfb8
Debian Security Advisory 4723-1
Posted Jul 28, 2020
Authored by Debian | Site debian.org

Debian Linux Security Advisory 4723-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, guest-to-host privilege escalation or information leaks.

tags | advisory, denial of service, vulnerability
systems | linux, debian
advisories | CVE-2020-11739, CVE-2020-11740, CVE-2020-11741, CVE-2020-11742, CVE-2020-11743, CVE-2020-15563, CVE-2020-15564, CVE-2020-15565, CVE-2020-15566, CVE-2020-15567
SHA-256 | 23a14d5d4f1b40346c3b8f9436b94f8f84c91c2bcadf8328b731909eac010506
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202005-08
Posted May 15, 2020
Authored by Gentoo | Site security.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202005-8 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, the worst of which could allow privilege escalation. Versions less than 4.12.2-r2 are affected.

tags | advisory, vulnerability
systems | linux, gentoo
advisories | CVE-2020-11739, CVE-2020-11740, CVE-2020-11741, CVE-2020-11742, CVE-2020-11743
SHA-256 | 8ba00f32c4e9e8000a32d7371e9e6a65e8aad643c362364438ff870a9a4f70d0
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