[XSA-448] Linux: netback processing of zero-length transmit fragment
ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol can consist of
multiple parts. While not really useful, except for the initial part
any of them may be of zero length, i.e. carry no data at all. Besides a
certain initial portion of the to be transferred data, these parts are
directly translated into what Linux calls SKB fragments. Such converted
request parts can, when for a particular SKB they are all of length
zero, lead to a de-reference of NULL in core networking code.
IMPACT
An unprivileged guest can cause Denial of Service (DoS) of the host by
sending network packets to the backend, causing the backend to crash.
Data corruption or privilege escalation have not been ruled out.
VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
All systems using a Linux based network backend with kernel 4.14 and
newer are vulnerable. Earlier versions may also be vulnerable. Systems
using other network backends are not known to be vulnerable.
Package | Affected Version |
---|---|
pkg:generic/xen | = 6.5 |
pkg:generic/xen | = 6.7-rc |
- ID
- XSA-448
- Severity
- high
- Severity from
- CVE-2023-46838
- URL
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-448.html
- Published
-
2024-01-22T18:30:00
(7 months ago) - Modified
-
2024-01-22T18:30:00
(7 months ago) - Rights
- Xen Project
- Other Advisories
-
- ALAS2-2024-2549
- ALPINE:CVE-2023-46838
- FEDORA-2024-0f89e13079
- FEDORA-2024-50ab089b1d
- SSA:2024-157-01
- SUSE-SU-2024:0463-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0468-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0469-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0474-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0476-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0478-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0483-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0484-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0514-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0515-1
- SUSE-SU-2024:0516-1
- USN-6688-1
- USN-6701-1
- USN-6701-2
- USN-6701-3
- USN-6701-4
- USN-6724-1
- USN-6724-2
- USN-6725-1
- USN-6725-2
- USN-6726-1
- USN-6726-2
- USN-6726-3
Source | # ID | Name | URL |
---|---|---|---|
Xen Project | XSA-448 | Security Advisory | http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-448.html |
Xen Project | XSA-448 | Signed Security Advisory | http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-448.txt |
Type | Package URL | Namespace | Name / Product | Version | Distribution / Platform | Arch | Patch / Fix |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Affected | pkg:generic/xen | xen | = 6.5 | ||||
Affected | pkg:generic/xen | xen | = 6.7-rc |
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