References: bnc#849668 CVE-2013-4554 XSA-76 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 Acked-by: Ian Campbell --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c @@ -3345,7 +3345,7 @@ int hvm_do_hypercall(struct cpu_user_reg 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;