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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2015.1845
Xen Security Advisory CVE-2015-3259 / XSA-137
13 July 2015
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Xen
Publisher: Xen
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Xen
Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2015-3259
Original Bulletin:
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-137.html
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Xen Security Advisory CVE-2015-3259 / XSA-137
version 3
xl command line config handling stack overflow
UPDATES IN VERSION 3
====================
Public release.
ISSUE DESCRIPTION
=================
The xl command line utility mishandles long configuration values when
passed as command line arguments, with a buffer overrun.
VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
==================
Systems built on top of xl which pass laundered or checked (but
otherwise untrusted) configuration values onto xl's command line,
without restricting their length, are vulnerable.
We are not presently aware of any publicly distributed production
software which exposes the xl vulnerability. However it is
sufficiently simple to create such an arrangement that it might be
done locally in an attempt to grant partial management access to
particular domains.
Systems using the libxl library directly, without using xl, are not
vulnerable. Systems using toolstacks other than xl are not
vulnerable. Systems where only fully trusted input is ever presented
to the xl command line are not vulnerable.
The vulnerability exists on x86 and ARM.
The vulnerability was introduced in Xen 4.1 and affects all subsequent
Xen releases.
IMPACT
======
A semi-trusted guest administrator or controller, who is intended to
be able to partially control the configuration settings for a domain,
can escalate their privileges to that of the whole host.
MITIGATION
==========
Limiting the length of untrusted configuration settings will avoid the
vulnerability. (The total length of all command-line configuration
settings, including some interposed newlines and trailing nul, must be
less than 1024.)
CREDITS
=======
This issue was discovered by Donghai Zhu of Alibab.
RESOLUTION
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Applying the appropriate attached patch resolves this issue.
xsa137.patch Xen 4.2.x and later
$ sha256sum xsa137*.patch
0272c443575c88b53445c89ef84f0cd98a03944d3303f06c66c33ef0037d97b9 xsa137.patch
$
DEPLOYMENT DURING EMBARGO
=========================
Deployment of the patches and/or mitigations described above (or
others which are substantially similar) is permitted during the
embargo, even on public-facing systems with untrusted guest users and
administrators.
But: Distribution of updated software is prohibited (except to other
members of the predisclosure list).
Predisclosure list members who wish to deploy significantly different
patches and/or mitigations, please contact the Xen Project Security
Team.
(Note: this during-embargo deployment notice is retained in
post-embargo publicly released Xen Project advisories, even though it
is then no longer applicable. This is to enable the community to have
oversight of the Xen Project Security Team's decisionmaking.)
For more information about permissible uses of embargoed information,
consult the Xen Project community's agreed Security Policy:
http://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html
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