x86/HVM: prevent use-after-free when destroying a domain
authorMihai Donțu <mdontu@bitdefender.com>
Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:49:52 +0000 (12:49 +0000)
committerIan Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:50:44 +0000 (12:50 +0000)
hvm_domain_relinquish_resources() can free certain domain resources
which can still be accessed, e.g. by HVMOP_set_param, while the domain
is being cleaned up.

This is CVE-2015-0361 / XSA-116.

Signed-off-by: Mihai Donțu <mdontu@bitdefender.com>
Tested-by: Răzvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c

index bc414ff2288bda0a1c6cffeae9d7f0db921801b9..72be5b9f68757fe6d7e2d6f51999fa3472f12b44 100644 (file)
@@ -1487,9 +1487,6 @@ int hvm_domain_initialise(struct domain *d)
 
 void hvm_domain_relinquish_resources(struct domain *d)
 {
-    xfree(d->arch.hvm_domain.io_handler);
-    xfree(d->arch.hvm_domain.params);
-
     if ( is_pvh_domain(d) )
         return;
 
@@ -1511,6 +1508,9 @@ void hvm_domain_relinquish_resources(struct domain *d)
 
 void hvm_domain_destroy(struct domain *d)
 {
+    xfree(d->arch.hvm_domain.io_handler);
+    xfree(d->arch.hvm_domain.params);
+
     hvm_destroy_cacheattr_region_list(d);
 
     if ( is_pvh_domain(d) )