Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-0217 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products
Summary
The x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier, as used in Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier and other products; Oracle Solaris 11 and earlier; illumos before r13724; Joyent SmartOS before 20120614T184600Z; FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p3; NetBSD 6.0 Beta and earlier; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1; and possibly other operating systems, when running on an Intel processor, incorrectly uses the sysret path in cases where a certain address is not a canonical address, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application. NOTE: because this issue is due to incorrect use of the Intel specification, it should have been split into separate identifiers; however, there was some value in preserving the original mapping of the multi-codebase coordinated-disclosure effort to a single identifier.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Exploit-Db
description Microsoft Windows Kernel Intel x64 SYSRET PoC. CVE-2012-0217. Local exploit for win64 platform id EDB-ID:20861 last seen 2016-02-02 modified 2012-08-27 published 2012-08-27 reporter Shahriyar Jalayeri source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/20861/ title Microsoft Windows Kernel Intel x64 SYSRET PoC file exploits/freebsd_x86-64/local/46508.rb id EDB-ID:46508 last seen 2019-03-07 modified 2019-03-07 platform freebsd_x86-64 port published 2019-03-07 reporter Exploit-DB source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/46508 title FreeBSD - Intel SYSRET Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) type local description FreeBSD 9.0 - Intel SYSRET Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploit. CVE-2012-0217. Local exploit for freebsd platform file exploits/freebsd/local/28718.c id EDB-ID:28718 last seen 2016-02-03 modified 2013-10-04 platform freebsd port published 2013-10-04 reporter CurcolHekerLink source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/28718/ title FreeBSD 9.0 - Intel SYSRET Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploit type local
Metasploit
description | This module exploits a vulnerability in the FreeBSD kernel, when running on 64-bit Intel processors. By design, 64-bit processors following the X86-64 specification will trigger a general protection fault (GPF) when executing a SYSRET instruction with a non-canonical address in the RCX register. However, Intel processors check for a non-canonical address prior to dropping privileges, causing a GPF in privileged mode. As a result, the current userland RSP stack pointer is restored and executed, resulting in privileged code execution. This module has been tested successfully on: FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE (amd64); and FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (amd64). |
id | MSF:EXPLOIT/FREEBSD/LOCAL/INTEL_SYSRET_PRIV_ESC |
last seen | 2020-06-13 |
modified | 2018-12-21 |
published | 2018-12-09 |
references |
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reporter | Rapid7 |
source | https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/freebsd/local/intel_sysret_priv_esc.rb |
title | FreeBSD Intel SYSRET Privilege Escalation |
Msbulletin
bulletin_id | MS12-042 |
bulletin_url | |
date | 2012-06-12T00:00:00 |
impact | Elevation of Privilege |
knowledgebase_id | 2711167 |
knowledgebase_url | |
severity | Important |
title | Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege |
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-2501.NASL description Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Xen, a hypervisor. - CVE-2012-0217 Xen does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel amd64 CPUs, allowing amd64 PV guests to elevate to hypervisor privileges. AMD processors, HVM and i386 guests are not affected. - CVE-2012-0218 Xen does not properly handle SYSCALL and SYSENTER instructions in PV guests, allowing unprivileged users inside a guest system to crash the guest system. - CVE-2012-2934 Xen does not detect old AMD CPUs affected by AMD Erratum #121. 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NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201309-24.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201309-24 (Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Guest domains could possibly gain privileges, execute arbitrary code, or cause a Denial of Service on the host domain (Dom0). Additionally, guest domains could gain information about other virtual machines running on the same host or read arbitrary files on the host. Workaround : The CVEs listed below do not currently have fixes, but only apply to Xen setups which have “tmem” specified on the hypervisor command line. TMEM is not currently supported for use in production systems, and administrators using tmem should disable it. Relevant CVEs: * CVE-2012-2497 * CVE-2012-6030 * CVE-2012-6031 * CVE-2012-6032 * CVE-2012-6033 * CVE-2012-6034 * CVE-2012-6035 * CVE-2012-6036 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 70184 published 2013-09-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70184 title GLSA-201309-24 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201309-24. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2019 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. 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NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-9430.NASL description make pygrub cope better with big files from guest (#818412 CVE-2012-2625), 64-bit PV guest privilege escalation vulnerability [CVE-2012-0217], guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation [CVE-2012-0218], PV guest host Denial of Service [CVE-2012-2934] Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-06-26 plugin id 59696 published 2012-06-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59696 title Fedora 15 : xen-4.1.2-8.fc15 (2012-9430) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2012-9430. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(59696); script_version("1.8"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2012-9430"); script_name(english:"Fedora 15 : xen-4.1.2-8.fc15 (2012-9430)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "make pygrub cope better with big files from guest (#818412 CVE-2012-2625), 64-bit PV guest privilege escalation vulnerability [CVE-2012-0217], guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation [CVE-2012-0218], PV guest host Denial of Service [CVE-2012-2934] Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082752.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ebc2ae1d" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected xen package."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/06/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/06/26"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^15([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 15.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC15", reference:"xen-4.1.2-8.fc15")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "xen"); }
NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2012-0022.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - CVE-2012-0217 CVE-2012-0218: guest DoS on syscall/sysenter exception generation [orabug 13993157] last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 79478 published 2014-11-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79478 title OracleVM 2.2 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0022) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2012-0721.NASL description Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : * It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 did not properly restrict the syscall return addresses in the sysret return path to canonical addresses. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest, that is running on a 64-bit host that has an Intel CPU, could use this flaw to crash the host or, potentially, escalate their privileges, allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-0217, Important) * It was found that guests could trigger a bug in earlier AMD CPUs, leading to a CPU hard lockup, when running on the Xen hypervisor implementation. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest could use this flaw to crash the host. Warning: After installing this update, hosts that are using an affected AMD CPU (refer to Red Hat Bugzilla bug #824966 for a list) will fail to boot. In order to boot such hosts, the new kernel parameter, allow_unsafe, can be used ( last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59467 published 2012-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59467 title RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0721) NASL family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins NASL id SMB_NT_MS12-042.NASL description The remote host is running a Windows kernel version that is affected by multiple elevation of privilege vulnerabilities : - A vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows User Mode Scheduler handles system requests that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode. (CVE-2012-0217) - A vulnerability exists in the way that Windows handles BIOS memory that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode. (CVE-2012-1515) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59460 published 2012-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59460 title MS12-042: Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2711167) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2012-0021.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86-64: detect processors subject to AMD erratum #121 and refuse to boot(CVE-2006-0744) - guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation (CVE-2012-0217),(CVE-2012-0218) - Remove unnecessary balloon retries on vm create. This is a backport from fix for bug 14143327. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 79477 published 2014-11-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79477 title OracleVM 3.1 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0021) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2012-0721-1.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:0721 : Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : * It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 did not properly restrict the syscall return addresses in the sysret return path to canonical addresses. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest, that is running on a 64-bit host that has an Intel CPU, could use this flaw to crash the host or, potentially, escalate their privileges, allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-0217, Important) * It was found that guests could trigger a bug in earlier AMD CPUs, leading to a CPU hard lockup, when running on the Xen hypervisor implementation. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest could use this flaw to crash the host. Warning: After installing this update, hosts that are using an affected AMD CPU (refer to Red Hat Bugzilla bug #824966 for a list) will fail to boot. In order to boot such hosts, the new kernel parameter, allow_unsafe, can be used ( last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 68539 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/68539 title Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0721-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2012-404.NASL description This update of XEN fixed multiple security flaws that could be exploited by local attackers to cause a Denial of Service or potentially escalate privileges. Additionally, several other upstream changes were backported. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 74683 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/74683 title openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2012-404) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-9399.NASL description make pygrub cope better with big files from guest (#818412 CVE-2012-2625), 64-bit PV guest privilege escalation vulnerability [CVE-2012-0217], guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation [CVE-2012-0218], PV guest host Denial of Service [CVE-2012-2934] Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-06-26 plugin id 59693 published 2012-06-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59693 title Fedora 16 : xen-4.1.2-8.fc16 (2012-9399) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_XEN-201206-120606.NASL description Three security issues were found in XEN. Two security issues are fixed by this update : - Due to incorrect fault handling in the XEN hypervisor it was possible for a XEN guest domain administrator to execute code in the XEN host environment. (CVE-2012-0217) - Also a guest user could crash the guest XEN kernel due to a protection fault bounce. The third fix is changing the Xen behaviour on certain hardware:. (CVE-2012-0218) - The issue is a denial of service issue on older pre-SVM AMD CPUs (AMD Erratum 121). AMD Erratum #121 is described in last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2013-01-25 plugin id 64233 published 2013-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64233 title SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 6399) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20120612_KERNEL_ON_SL5_X.NASL description The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation as shipped with Scientific Linux 5 did not properly restrict the syscall return addresses in the sysret return path to canonical addresses. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest, that is running on a 64-bit host that has an Intel CPU, could use this flaw to crash the host or, potentially, escalate their privileges, allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-0217, Important) - It was found that guests could trigger a bug in earlier AMD CPUs, leading to a CPU hard lockup, when running on the Xen hypervisor implementation. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest could use this flaw to crash the host. Warning: After installing this update, hosts that are using an affected AMD CPU (refer to upstream bug #824966 for a list) will fail to boot. In order to boot such hosts, the new kernel parameter, allow_unsafe, can be used ( last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2012-08-01 plugin id 61326 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/61326 title Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120612) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-9386.NASL description 64-bit PV guest privilege escalation vulnerability [CVE-2012-0217], guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation [CVE-2012-0218], PV guest host Denial of Service [CVE-2012-2934] Enable xenconsoled by default under systemd, adjust xend.service systemd file to avoid selinux problems Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-06-26 plugin id 59692 published 2012-06-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59692 title Fedora 17 : xen-4.1.2-20.fc17 (2012-9386) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2012-0020.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86-64: detect processors subject to AMD erratum #121 and refuse to boot(CVE-2006-0744) - guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation (CVE-2012-0217) - Remove unnecessary balloon retries on vm create. This is a backport from fix for bug 14143327. - This backport from 3.1.1: Author: amisherf Put back the patch that prevent older guest that uses kudzu from hanging on a reboot. Fixed the patch to prevent excessive watcher writes which causes xend, xenstored to run at a 100% cpu usage. Now the watch is written only if console in Initialising, InitWait, Initialised states which happen once at boot time. [bug 13523487] - Backport from upstream changeset 20968 xend: notify xenpv device model that console info is ready Sometimes PV domain with vfb doesn last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 79476 published 2014-11-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79476 title OracleVM 3.0 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0020) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2012-0720.NASL description Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. [Updated 19th June 2012] The original erratum text provided an incorrect description for BZ#807929. The text has been updated to provide the correct description. No changes have been made to the packages. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : * It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 did not properly restrict the syscall return addresses in the sysret return path to canonical addresses. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest, that is running on a 64-bit host that has an Intel CPU, could use this flaw to crash the host or, potentially, escalate their privileges, allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-0217, Important) Note: For Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests, only privileged guest users can exploit CVE-2012-0217. * A flaw in the xfrm6_tunnel_rcv() function in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 64039 published 2013-01-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64039 title RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0720) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2012-0721.NASL description Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : * It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 did not properly restrict the syscall return addresses in the sysret return path to canonical addresses. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest, that is running on a 64-bit host that has an Intel CPU, could use this flaw to crash the host or, potentially, escalate their privileges, allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-0217, Important) * It was found that guests could trigger a bug in earlier AMD CPUs, leading to a CPU hard lockup, when running on the Xen hypervisor implementation. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest could use this flaw to crash the host. Warning: After installing this update, hosts that are using an affected AMD CPU (refer to Red Hat Bugzilla bug #824966 for a list) will fail to boot. In order to boot such hosts, the new kernel parameter, allow_unsafe, can be used ( last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59479 published 2012-06-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59479 title CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2012:0721) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-2508.NASL description Rafal Wojtczuk from Bromium discovered that FreeBSD wasn last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-07-23 plugin id 60088 published 2012-07-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60088 title Debian DSA-2508-1 : kfreebsd-8 - privilege escalation NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_AED44C4EC06711E1B5E0000C299B62E1.NASL description Problem description : FreeBSD/amd64 runs on CPUs from different vendors. Due to varying behaviour of CPUs in 64 bit mode a sanity check of the kernel may be insufficient when returning from a system call. Successful exploitation of the problem can lead to local kernel privilege escalation, kernel data corruption and/or crash. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be able to run code with user privileges on the target system. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 59748 published 2012-06-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59748 title FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Privilege escalation when returning from kernel (aed44c4e-c067-11e1-b5e0-000c299b62e1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_XEN-201206-8180.NASL description Three security issues were found in XEN. Two security issues are fixed by this update : - Due to incorrect fault handling in the XEN hypervisor it was possible for a XEN guest domain administrator to execute code in the XEN host environment. (CVE-2012-0217) - Also a guest user could crash the guest XEN kernel due to a protection fault bounce. (CVE-2012-0218) The third fix is changing the Xen behaviour on certain hardware : - The issue is a denial of service issue on older pre-SVM AMD CPUs (AMD Erratum 121). (CVE-2012-2934) AMD Erratum #121 is described in last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2012-06-13 plugin id 59469 published 2012-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59469 title SuSE 10 Security Update : Xen (ZYPP Patch Number 8180) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2012-403.NASL description This update of XEN fixed multiple security flaws that could be exploited by local attackers to cause a Denial of Service or potentially escalate privileges. Additionally, several other upstream changes were backported. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 74682 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/74682 title openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:0886-1) NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS_OCT2012_SRU10_5.NASL description This Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized Operating System takeover including arbitrary code execution. Note: CVE-2012-0217 only affects Solaris instances running on platforms other than SPARC. (CVE-2012-0217) - Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: Power Management). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized Operating System takeover including arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2012-3204) - Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: Logical Domain(LDOM)). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized Operating System hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) as well as update, insert or delete access to some Solaris accessible data. Note: CVE-2012-3209 and CVE-2012-3215 only affects Solaris on the SPARC platform. (CVE-2012-3209) - Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: Vino server). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some Solaris accessible data. (CVE-2012-3205) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 76829 published 2014-07-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/76829 title Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2012_SRU10_5 NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2012-0721.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:0721 : Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : * It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 did not properly restrict the syscall return addresses in the sysret return path to canonical addresses. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest, that is running on a 64-bit host that has an Intel CPU, could use this flaw to crash the host or, potentially, escalate their privileges, allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-0217, Important) * It was found that guests could trigger a bug in earlier AMD CPUs, leading to a CPU hard lockup, when running on the Xen hypervisor implementation. An unprivileged user in a 64-bit para-virtualized guest could use this flaw to crash the host. Warning: After installing this update, hosts that are using an affected AMD CPU (refer to Red Hat Bugzilla bug #824966 for a list) will fail to boot. In order to boot such hosts, the new kernel parameter, allow_unsafe, can be used ( last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 68540 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/68540 title Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0721)
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accepted | 2012-07-30T04:00:28.580-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||
class | vulnerability | ||||||||||||||||
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description | The x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier, as used in Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier and other products; Oracle Solaris 11 and earlier; illumos before r13724; Joyent SmartOS before 20120614T184600Z; FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p3; NetBSD 6.0 Beta and earlier; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1; and possibly other operating systems, when running on an Intel processor, incorrectly uses the sysret path in cases where a certain address is not a canonical address, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application. NOTE: because this issue is due to incorrect use of the Intel specification, it should have been split into separate identifiers; however, there was some value in preserving the original mapping of the multi-codebase coordinated-disclosure effort to a single identifier. | ||||||||||||||||
family | windows | ||||||||||||||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15596 | ||||||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
submitted | 2012-06-18T12:53:22 | ||||||||||||||||
title | User Mode Scheduler Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0217) | ||||||||||||||||
version | 77 |
Packetstorm
data source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/152001/intel_sysret_priv_esc.rb.txt |
id | PACKETSTORM:152001 |
last seen | 2019-03-07 |
published | 2019-03-07 |
reporter | Rafal Wojtczuk |
source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152001/FreeBSD-Intel-SYSRET-Privilege-Escalation.html |
title | FreeBSD Intel SYSRET Privilege Escalation |
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