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Bug 1417812 (CVE-2017-2596)

Summary:	CVE-2017-2596 Kernel: kvm: page reference leakage in handle_vmon
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aquini, arm-mgr, bhu, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, joelsmith, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, vdronov, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	Linux kernel built with the KVM visualization support (CONFIG_KVM), with nested visualization(nVMX) feature enabled(nested=1), is vulnerable to host memory leakage issue. It could occur while emulating VMXON instruction in 'handle_vmon'. An L1 guest user could use this flaw to leak host memory potentially resulting in DoS.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:06:40 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1417813, 1417825, 1417826
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Description Prasad Pandit 2017-01-31 07:19:29 UTC

Linux kernel built with the KVM virtualisation support(CONFIG_KVM), with
nested virtualisation(nVMX) feature enabled(nested=1), is vulnerable to host
memory leakage issue. It could occur while emulating VMXON instruction in
'handle_vmon'.

A L1 guest user could use this flaw to leak host memory potentially resulting
in DoS.

Upstream patch
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  -> https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg144319.html

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/4

Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2017-01-31 07:19:34 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Dmitry Vyukov (Google Inc.)

Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2017-01-31 07:20:34 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1417813]

Comment 5 Prasad Pandit 2017-01-31 08:03:45 UTC

Statement:

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-02-07 00:53:44 UTC

kernel-4.9.7-101.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 19:12:26 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2077 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 07:52:35 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1842 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842