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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade xen | Jun 16, 2020 | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade xen | Jul 14, 2020 | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-emulation/xen-tools.Upgrade app-emulation/xen. | Jun 15, 2020 | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade xenUpgrade xen-kmp-defaultUpgrade xen-tools-domUUpgrade xen-libsUpgrade xen-develUpgrade xen-doc-htmlUpgrade xen-kmp-paeUpgrade xen-libs-32bitUpgrade xen-tools-xendomains-wait-diskUpgrade xen-tools | May 1, 2020 | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade xen-utils-4.11Upgrade libxendevicemodel1Upgrade libxenevtchn1Upgrade libxenmisc4.11Upgrade xen-hypervisor-4.11-arm64Upgrade xen-hypervisor-4.11-armhfUpgrade xenstore-utilsUpgrade xen-hypervisor-4.11-amd64Upgrade libxengnttab1Upgrade xen-utils-common | Sep 20, 2022 | Apr 14, 2020 |
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