An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing Arm guest OS users to cause a hypervisor crash because of a missing alignment check in VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info. The hypercall VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info is used by a guest to register a shared region with the hypervisor. The region will be mapped into Xen address space so it can be directly accessed. On Arm, the region is accessed with instructions that require a specific alignment. Unfortunately, there is no check that the address provided by the guest will be correctly aligned. As a result, a malicious guest could cause a hypervisor crash by passing a misaligned address. A malicious guest administrator may cause a hypervisor crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). All Xen versions are vulnerable. Only Arm systems are vulnerable. x86 systems are not affected.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-07-07T12:25:47

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:22:29.360Z

Reserved: 2020-07-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-15564

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-07T13:15:10.023

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:17:40.970

Link: CVE-2020-15564

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-07-07T12:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-15564 - Bugzilla