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.
Published: 2020-04-14
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4723-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-4085 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5617-1 Xen vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:41:58.976Z

Reserved: 2020-04-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-11743

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-14T13:15:12.970

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:58:31.960

Link: CVE-2020-11743

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-04-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-11743 - Bugzilla

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