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HistoryJul 27, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

xen - security update

2016-07-2700:00:00
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7

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

47.3%

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

  • CVE-2015-8338
    Julien Grall discovered that Xen on ARM was susceptible to denial
    of service via long running memory operations.
  • CVE-2016-4480
    Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect page table handling could
    result in privilege escalation inside a Xen guest instance.
  • CVE-2016-4962
    Wei Liu discovered multiple cases of missing input sanitising in
    libxl which could result in denial of service.
  • CVE-2016-5242
    Aaron Cornelius discovered that incorrect resource handling on
    ARM systems could result in denial of service.
  • CVE-2016-6258
    Jeremie Boutoille discovered that incorrect pagetable handling in
    PV instances could result in guest to host privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.4.1-9+deb8u6.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

47.3%