Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-3432 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in XEN
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The handle_mmio function in arch/x86/hvm/io.c in the MMIO operations emulator for Xen 3.3 and 4.x, when running an HVM guest, does not properly reset certain state information between emulation cycles, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via unspecified operations on MMIO regions.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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OS | 11 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's configuration that allows an attacker to either directly access an executable file, for example through shell access; or in a possible worst case allows an attacker to upload a file and then execute it. Web servers, ftp servers, and message oriented middleware systems which have many integration points are particularly vulnerable, because both the programmers and the administrators must be in synch regarding the interfaces and the correct privileges for each interface.
- Leverage Executable Code in Non-Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's trust in configuration and resource files, when the executable loads the resource (such as an image file or configuration file) the attacker has modified the file to either execute malicious code directly or manipulate the target process (e.g. application server) to execute based on the malicious configuration parameters. Since systems are increasingly interrelated mashing up resources from local and remote sources the possibility of this attack occurring is high. The attack can be directed at a client system, such as causing buffer overrun through loading seemingly benign image files, as in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 where specially crafted JPEG files could cause a buffer overrun once loaded into the browser. Another example targets clients reading pdf files. In this case the attacker simply appends javascript to the end of a legitimate url for a pdf (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/) http://path/to/pdf/file.pdf#whatever_name_you_want=javascript:your_code_here The client assumes that they are reading a pdf, but the attacker has modified the resource and loaded executable javascript into the client's browser process. The attack can also target server processes. The attacker edits the resource or configuration file, for example a web.xml file used to configure security permissions for a J2EE app server, adding role name "public" grants all users with the public role the ability to use the administration functionality. The server trusts its configuration file to be correct, but when they are manipulated, the attacker gains full control.
- Blue Boxing This type of attack against older telephone switches and trunks has been around for decades. A tone is sent by an adversary to impersonate a supervisor signal which has the effect of rerouting or usurping command of the line. While the US infrastructure proper may not contain widespread vulnerabilities to this type of attack, many companies are connected globally through call centers and business process outsourcing. These international systems may be operated in countries which have not upgraded Telco infrastructure and so are vulnerable to Blue boxing. Blue boxing is a result of failure on the part of the system to enforce strong authorization for administrative functions. While the infrastructure is different than standard current applications like web applications, there are historical lessons to be learned to upgrade the access control for administrative functions.
- Restful Privilege Elevation Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.
- Target Programs with Elevated Privileges This attack targets programs running with elevated privileges. The attacker would try to leverage a bug in the running program and get arbitrary code to execute with elevated privileges. For instance an attacker would look for programs that write to the system directories or registry keys (such as HKLM, which stores a number of critical Windows environment variables). These programs are typically running with elevated privileges and have usually not been designed with security in mind. Such programs are excellent exploit targets because they yield lots of power when they break. The malicious user try to execute its code at the same level as a privileged system call.
Nessus
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. 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NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_XEN-201208-120805.NASL description Xen was updated to fix several security issues : - A xen HVM guest destroy p2m teardown host DoS vulnerability was fixed, where malicious guest could lock/crash the host. (CVE-2012-3433) - A xen HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS was fixed. (CVE-2012-3432) - The xen pv bootloader doesn last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2013-01-25 plugin id 64235 published 2013-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64235 title SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Xen and libvirt (SAT Patch Number 6640) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2012-596.NASL description Security Update for Xen Following fixes were done : - bnc#776995 - attaching scsi control luns with pvscsi - xend/pvscsi: fix passing of SCSI control LUNs xen-bug776995-pvscsi-no-devname.patch - xend/pvscsi: fix usage of persistant device names for SCSI devices xen-bug776995-pvscsi-persistent-names.patch - xend/pvscsi: update sysfs parser for Linux 3.0 xen-bug776995-pvscsi-sysfs-parser.patch - bnc#777090 - VUL-0: CVE-2012-3494: xen: hypercall set_debugreg vulnerability (XSA-12) CVE-2012-3494-xsa12.patch - bnc#777091 - VUL-0: CVE-2012-3496: xen: XENMEM_populate_physmap DoS vulnerability (XSA-14) CVE-2012-3496-xsa14.patch - bnc#777084 - VUL-0: CVE-2012-3515: xen: Qemu VT100 emulation vulnerability (XSA-17) CVE-2012-3515-xsa17.patch - bnc#744771 - VM with passed through PCI card fails to reboot under dom0 load 24888-pci-release-devices.patch - Upstream patches from Jan 25431-x86-EDD-MBR-sig-check.patch 25459-page-list-splice.patch 25478-x86-unknown-NMI-deadlock.patch 25480-x86_64-sysret-canonical.patch 25481-x86_64-AMD-erratum-121.patch 25485-x86_64-canonical-checks.patch 25587-param-parse-limit.patch 25617-vtd-qinval-addr.patch 25688-x86-nr_irqs_gsi.patch - bnc#773393 - VUL-0: CVE-2012-3433: xen: HVM guest destroy p2m teardown host DoS vulnerability CVE-2012-3433-xsa11.patch - bnc#773401 - VUL-1: CVE-2012-3432: xen: HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS 25682-x86-inconsistent-io-state.patch - bnc#762484 - VUL-1: CVE-2012-2625: xen: pv bootloader doesn last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 74749 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/74749 title openSUSE Security Update : Xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:1174-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2012-597.NASL description Security Update for Xen Following bug and security fixes were applied : - bnc#776995 - attaching scsi control luns with pvscsi - xend/pvscsi: fix passing of SCSI control LUNs xen-bug776995-pvscsi-no-devname.patch - xend/pvscsi: fix usage of persistant device names for SCSI devices xen-bug776995-pvscsi-persistent-names.patch - xend/pvscsi: update sysfs parser for Linux 3.0 xen-bug776995-pvscsi-sysfs-parser.patch - bnc#777090 - CVE-2012-3494: xen: hypercall set_debugreg vulnerability (XSA-12) CVE-2012-3494-xsa12.patch - bnc#777088 - CVE-2012-3495: xen: hypercall physdev_get_free_pirq vulnerability (XSA-13) CVE-2012-3495-xsa13.patch - bnc#777091 - CVE-2012-3496: xen: XENMEM_populate_physmap DoS vulnerability (XSA-14) CVE-2012-3496-xsa14.patch - bnc#777086 - CVE-2012-3498: xen: PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq index vulnerability (XSA-16) CVE-2012-3498-xsa16.patch - bnc#777084 - CVE-2012-3515: xen: Qemu VT100 emulation vulnerability (XSA-17) CVE-2012-3515-xsa17.patch - Upstream patches from Jan 25734-x86-MCG_CTL-default.patch 25735-x86-cpuid-masking-XeonE5.patch 25744-hypercall-return-long.patch - Update to Xen 4.1.3 c/s 23336 - Upstream or pending upstream patches from Jan 25587-fix-off-by-one-parsing-error.patch 25616-x86-MCi_CTL-default.patch 25617-vtd-qinval-addr.patch 25688-x86-nr_irqs_gsi.patch - bnc#773393 - VUL-0: CVE-2012-3433: xen: HVM guest destroy p2m teardown host DoS vulnerability CVE-2012-3433-xsa11.patch - bnc#773401 - VUL-1: CVE-2012-3432: xen: HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS 25682-x86-inconsistent-io-state.patch - bnc#762484 - VUL-1: CVE-2012-2625: xen: pv bootloader doesn last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 74750 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/74750 title openSUSE Security Update : Xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:1172-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2012-598.NASL description Security Update for Xen last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 74751 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/74751 title openSUSE Security Update : Xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:1176-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_XEN-201208-120803.NASL description Xen was updated to fix several security issues : - A xen HVM guest destroy p2m teardown host DoS vulnerability was fixed, where malicious guest could lock/crash the host. (CVE-2012-3433) - A xen HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS was fixed. (CVE-2012-3432) - The xen pv bootloader doesn last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2013-01-25 plugin id 64234 published 2013-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64234 title SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 6653) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-11190.NASL description in rare circumstances an unprivileged user can crash an HVM guest [XSA-10] (#843766) 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 2012-08-06 plugin id 61423 published 2012-08-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/61423 title Fedora 16 : xen-4.1.2-9.fc16 (2012-11190) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-2531.NASL description Several denial-of-service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen, the popular virtualization software. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues : - CVE-2012-3432 Guest mode unprivileged code, which has been granted the privilege to access MMIO regions, may leverage that access to crash the whole guest. Since this can be used to crash a client from within, this vulnerability is considered to have low impact. - CVE-2012-3433 A guest kernel can cause the host to become unresponsive for a period of time, potentially leading to a DoS. Since an attacker with full control in the guest can impact the host, this vulnerability is considered to have high impact. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-08-20 plugin id 61578 published 2012-08-20 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/61578 title Debian DSA-2531-1 : xen - Denial of Service NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-11182.NASL description in rare circumstances an unprivileged user can crash an HVM guest [XSA-10] (#843766), remove a dependency on PyXML and Require python-lxml instead of PyXML (#842843) adjust systemd service files not to report failures when running without a hypervisor or when xendomains.service doesn last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-08-06 plugin id 61422 published 2012-08-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/61422 title Fedora 17 : xen-4.1.2-24.fc17 (2012-11182) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2012-0036.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - CVE-2012-3432 / XSA-10: HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS vulnerability [orabug 14463558] (CVE-2012-3432) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 79481 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/79481 title OracleVM 2.2 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0036)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-07/msg01649.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2531
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54691