[v2.6.34-stable 115/213] KVM: x86: fix for buffer overflow in handling of MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME (CVE-2013-1796)

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Wed Feb 05 2014 - 15:45:11 EST


From: Andy Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit c300aa64ddf57d9c5d9c898a64b36877345dd4a9 upstream.

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index c1e586d82c1d..65f9c0c45312 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1152,6 +1152,11 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
/* ...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);

--
1.8.5.2

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