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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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
Products Affected
xen
- xen
fedoraproject
- fedora