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xen: privilege escalation

Package(s):xen CVE #(s):CVE-2013-4329
Created:September 19, 2013 Updated:September 25, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

With HVM domains, libxl's setup of PCI passthrough devices does the IOMMU setup after giving (via the device model) the guest access to the hardware and advertising it to the guest.

If the IOMMU is disabled the overall setup fails, but after the device has been made available to the guest; subsequent DMA instructions from the guest to the device will cause wild DMA.

A HVM domain, given access to a device which bus mastering capable in the absence of a functioning IOMMU, can mount a privilege escalation or denial of service attack affecting the whole system.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2013-16371 2013-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2013-16357 2013-09-19

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