oss-security - Re: Xen Security Advisory 407 v1 (CVE-2022-23816,CVE-2022-23825,CVE-2022-29900) - Retbleed - arbitrary speculative code execution with return instructions

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Message-ID: <Ys3MxgqixXKIMg/T@eldamar.lan>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 21:34:30 +0200
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: xen-announce@...ts.xen.org, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	xen-users@...ts.xen.org,
	"Xen.org security team" <security-team-members@....org>
Subject: Re: Xen Security Advisory 407 v1
 (CVE-2022-23816,CVE-2022-23825,CVE-2022-29900) - Retbleed - arbitrary
 speculative code execution with return instructions

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 09:27:07PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 04:36:10PM +0000, Xen.org security team wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA256
> > 
> >  Xen Security Advisory CVE-2022-23816,CVE-2022-23825,CVE-2022-29900 / XSA-407
> > 
> >    Retbleed - arbitrary speculative code execution with return instructions
> > 
> > ISSUE DESCRIPTION
> > =================
> > 
> > Researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered Retbleed, allowing for
> > arbitrary speculative execution in a victim context.
> > 
> > For more details, see:
> >   https://comsec.ethz.ch/retbleed
> > 
> > ETH Zurich have allocated CVE-2022-29900 for AMD and CVE-2022-29901 for
> > Intel.
> > 
> > Despite the similar preconditions, these are very different
> > microarchitectural behaviours between vendors.
> > 
> > On AMD CPUs, Retbleed is one specific instance of a more general
> > microarchitectural behaviour called Branch Type Confusion.  AMD have
> > assigned CVE-2022-23816 (Retbleed) and CVE-2022-23825 (Branch Type
> > Confusion).
> > 
> > For more details, see:
> >   https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-1037
> 
> Is it confirmed that AMD is not using CVE-2022-29900? The above
> amd-sb-1037 references as well both CVE-2022-23825 (Branch Type
> Confusion) and CVE-2022-29900 (RETbleed), so I assume they agreed to
> use CVE-2022-29900 for retbleed?
> 
> So should the Xen advisory as well use CVE-2022-23825,CVE-2022-29900
> and CVE-2022-29901?

Nevermind, I missunderstood the wording and the advisory just mentions
all the related CVEs correctly and made a thinko. It might turn out
that CVE-2022-23816 will not be used, but then the title would read
only as 

Xen Security Advisory CVE-2022-23825,CVE-2022-29900 / XSA-407

So please disregard the question above.

Salvatore

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