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authorAndy Honig <ahonig@google.com>2013-03-11 09:34:52 -0700
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2013-03-19 14:17:31 -0300
commitc300aa64ddf57d9c5d9c898a64b36877345dd4a9 (patch)
tree509c85623ff9e65c383845562db3dbce2da17531 /arch
parentc09664bb44184b3846e8c5254db4eae4b932682a (diff)
downloadlinux-c300aa64ddf57d9c5d9c898a64b36877345dd4a9.tar.bz2
KVM: x86: fix for buffer overflow in handling of MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME (CVE-2013-1796)
If the guest sets the GPA of the time_page so that the request to update the time straddles a page then KVM will write onto an incorrect page. The write is done byusing kmap atomic to get a pointer to the page for the time structure and then performing a memcpy to that page starting at an offset that the guest controls. Well behaved guests always provide a 32-byte aligned address, however a malicious guest could use this to corrupt host kernel memory. Tested: Tested against kvmclock unit test. Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index f7c850b36910..2ade60c25402 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1959,6 +1959,11 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
/* ...but clean it before doing the actual write */
vcpu->arch.time_offset = data & ~(PAGE_MASK | 1);
+ /* Check that the address is 32-byte aligned. */
+ if (vcpu->arch.time_offset &
+ (sizeof(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info) - 1))
+ break;
+
vcpu->arch.time_page =
gfn_to_page(vcpu->kvm, data >> PAGE_SHIFT);