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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Published : 2020-07-07 13:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 05:05
NVD link : CVE-2020-15564
Mitre link : CVE-2020-15564
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-15564
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Products Affected
xen
- xen
debian
- debian_linux
fedoraproject
- fedora
CWE
CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer