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             Xen Security Advisory CVE-2013-4370 / XSA-69
                               version 2

           misplaced free in ocaml xc_vcpu_getaffinity stub

UPDATES IN VERSION 2
====================

Public release.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION
=================

The ocaml binding for the xc_vcpu_getaffinity function incorrectly
frees a pointer before using it and subsequently freeing it again
afterwards. The code therefore contains a use-after-free and
double-free flaws.

IMPACT
======

An attacker may be able to cause a multithreaded toolstack written in
ocaml and using this function to race against itself leading to heap
corruption and a potential DoS.

Depending on the malloc implementation code execution cannot be ruled
out.

VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
==================

The flaw is present in Xen 4.2 onwards.

Systems using an ocaml based toolstack (e.g. xapi) are vulnerable.

MITIGATION
==========

Not calling the vcpu_getaffinity function will avoid this issue.

Not allowing untrusted users access to toolstack functionality will
avoid this issue.

CREDITS
=======

This issue was discovered by Coverity Scan and Matthew Daley.

RESOLUTION
==========

Applying the attached patch resolves this issue.

xsa69.patch             Xen 4.3.x, Xen 4.2.x, xen-unstable


$ sha256sum xsa69*.patch
d3beb662aacf628b6a25ff6cfcd9526ab689aa43a56cf25e792a001f89b4edbc  xsa69.patch
$
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