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Xen Security Advisory 464 v2 (CVE-2024-45819) - libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables

Posted by Xen . org security team on Nov 12

Xen Security Advisory CVE-2024-45819 / XSA-464
version 2

libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables

UPDATES IN VERSION 2
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Public release.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION
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PVH guests have their ACPI tables constructed by the toolstack. The
construction involves building the tables in local memory, which are
then copied into guest memory. While actually used...




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Re: Xen Security Advisory 464 v2 (CVE-2024-45819) - libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables

Posted by Andrew Cooper on Nov 12

Data are leaked into the PVShim guest, but it is the shim Xen
(exclusively) which has access to the ACPI tables.

The guest which has been shim'd can't architecturally access the leaked
data.

~Andrew




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Re: Xen Security Advisory 464 v2 (CVE-2024-45819) - libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables

Posted by Demi Marie Obenour on Nov 12

Is this unconditional (perhaps because the relevant data gets zeroed out
by the shim), or does it only apply when the PV guest can't extract data
from the shim's memory? For instance, 32-bit PV guests aren't security
supported anymore, but the PV shim isn't supposed to rely on the
security of the shim itself, only of the rest of the system.




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