From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: cve@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2025-21818: x86/xen: fix xen_hypercall_hvm() to not clobber %rbx
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 15:25:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025030236-item-coral-d4b3@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f78c7925-8057-4503-93ec-c50386a63862@suse.com>
On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 08:28:48AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 27.02.25 21:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Description
> > ===========
> >
> > In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> >
> > x86/xen: fix xen_hypercall_hvm() to not clobber %rbx
> >
> > xen_hypercall_hvm(), which is used when running as a Xen PVH guest at
> > most only once during early boot, is clobbering %rbx. Depending on
> > whether the caller relies on %rbx to be preserved across the call or
> > not, this clobbering might result in an early crash of the system.
> >
> > This can be avoided by using an already saved register instead of %rbx.
> >
> > The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21818 to this issue.
>
> Please revoke this CVE.
>
> There is no way an unprivileged user can trigger this issue at will.
> The issue is guest local and will either happen very early at boot or
> it won't happen at all.
>
> So no security issue.
Now rejected, thanks for the review.
greg k-h
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2025-02-28 7:28 ` Juergen Gross
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