From 4cefc72fc883945dcc71c877ceab779f16e52e76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:58:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86emul: fully ignore segment override for register-only operations For ModRM encoded instructions with register operands we must not overwrite ea.mem.seg (if a - bogus in that case - segment override was present) as it aliases with ea.reg. This is CVE-2015-2151 / XSA-123. Reported-by: Felix Wilhelm Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan Reviewed-by: Keir Fraser master commit: bcf92a5382b75fd964c1f8678b2d9a3abe6dec39 master date: 2015-03-10 13:45:51 +0100 --- xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c b/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c index cb172e9e46..66560721ad 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c @@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@ x86_emulate( } } - if ( override_seg != -1 ) + if ( override_seg != -1 && ea.type == OP_MEM ) ea.mem.seg = override_seg; /* Early operand adjustments. */