CVE-2020-11743

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
14/04/2020
Last modified:
07/11/2023

Description

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.13.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.13.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.13.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*