x86emul: only emulate software interrupt injection for real mode Protected mode emulation currently lacks proper privilege checking of the referenced IDT entry, and there's currently no legitimate way for any of the respective instructions to reach the emulator when the guest is in protected mode. This is XSA-106. Reported-by: Andrei LUTAS Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Keir Fraser --- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c @@ -2634,6 +2634,7 @@ x86_emulate( case 0xcd: /* int imm8 */ src.val = insn_fetch_type(uint8_t); swint: + fail_if(!in_realmode(ctxt, ops)); /* XSA-106 */ fail_if(ops->inject_sw_interrupt == NULL); rc = ops->inject_sw_interrupt(src.val, _regs.eip - ctxt->regs->eip, ctxt) ? : X86EMUL_EXCEPTION;