CVE-2020-11743

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.
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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.13.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.13.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2020-04-14 06:15

Updated : 2020-07-13 09:15


NVD link : CVE-2020-11743

Mitre link : CVE-2020-11743


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CWE
CWE-755

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

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Products Affected

xen

  • xen

fedoraproject

  • fedora