| From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
| Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:07:21 +0200 |
| Subject: [PATCH] KVM: emulate: avoid accessing NULL ctxt->memopp |
| |
| A failure to decode the instruction can cause a NULL pointer access. |
| This is fixed simply by moving the "done" label as close as possible |
| to the return. |
| |
| This fixes CVE-2014-8481. |
| |
| Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> |
| Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org |
| Fixes: 41061cdb98a0bec464278b4db8e894a3121671f5 |
| Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
| |
| arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +- |
| 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) |
| |
| diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c |
| index a0a04090d2ff..5669ed12f9ee 100644 |
| |
| |
| @@ -4565,10 +4565,10 @@ done_prefixes: |
| /* Decode and fetch the destination operand: register or memory. */ |
| rc = decode_operand(ctxt, &ctxt->dst, (ctxt->d >> DstShift) & OpMask); |
| |
| -done: |
| if (ctxt->rip_relative) |
| ctxt->memopp->addr.mem.ea += ctxt->_eip; |
| |
| +done: |
| return (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE) ? EMULATION_FAILED : EMULATION_OK; |
| } |
| |
| -- |
| 1.9.3 |
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