CVE-2020-11742

xen: bad continuation handling in GNTTABOP_copy (XSA-318)

Published Apr 14, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of bad continuation handling in GNTTABOP_copy. Grant table operations are expected to return 0 for success, and a negative number for errors. The fix for CVE-2017-12135 introduced a path through grant copy handling where success may be returned to the caller without any action taken. In particular, the status fields of individual operations are left uninitialised, and may result in errant behaviour in the caller of GNTTABOP_copy. A buggy or malicious guest can construct its grant table in such a way that, when a backend domain tries to copy a grant, it hits the incorrect exit path. This returns success to the caller without doing anything, which may cause crashes or other incorrect behaviour.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4723-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-4084 An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of bad continuation handling in GNTTABOP_copy. Grant table operations are expected to return 0 for success, and a negative number for errors. The fix for CVE-2017-12135 introduced a path through grant copy handling where success may be returned to the caller without any action taken. In particular, the status fields of individual operations are left uninitialised, and may result in errant behaviour in the caller of GNTTABOP_copy. A buggy or malicious guest can construct its grant table in such a way that, when a backend domain tries to copy a grant, it hits the incorrect exit path. This returns success to the caller without doing anything, which may cause crashes or other incorrect behaviour.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5617-1 Xen vulnerabilities
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Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:41 AM
Reserved
Apr 14, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 14, 2020, 1:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:50 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Apr 14, 2020, 12:00 AM