x86/HVM: only allow ring 0 guest code to make hypercalls

Anything else would allow for privilege escalation.

This is CVE-2013-4554 / XSA-76.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
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Jan Beulich committed 2013-11-27 09:01:49 +01:00
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@@ -3468,7 +3468,7 @@ int hvm_do_hypercall(struct cpu_user_regs *regs)
case 4:
case 2:
hvm_get_segment_register(curr, x86_seg_ss, &sreg);
if ( unlikely(sreg.attr.fields.dpl == 3) )
if ( unlikely(sreg.attr.fields.dpl) )
{
default:
regs->eax = -EPERM;
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