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| author | Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> | 2012-11-14 11:45:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> | 2012-11-14 11:45:37 +0000 |
| commit | 3376d387cd50bf58bffdd1259042793ac4a4cfc7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fca1cb7985711fef951848c202657671771d828 /tools/configure | |
| parent | 52c1374d7fc35cd275ced4daf7101d713d7ec294 (diff) | |
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compat/gnttab: Prevent infinite loop in compat code
c/s 20281:95ea2052b41b, which introduces Grant Table version 2
hypercalls introduces a vulnerability whereby the compat hypercall
handler can fall into an infinite loop.
If the watchdog is enabled, Xen will die after the timeout.
This is a security problem, XSA-24 / CVE-2012-4539.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
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