Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4751-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4751-1 advisory. It was discovered that the console keyboard driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive...

CVE-2021-28039

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.9.x through 5.11.3, as used with Xen. In some less-common configurations, an x86 PV guest OS user can crash a Dom0 or driver domain via a large amount of I/O activity. The issue relates to misuse of guest physical addresses when a configuration has...

CVE-2021-28039

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.9.x through 5.11.3, as used with Xen. In some less-common configurations, an x86 PV guest OS user can crash a Dom0 or driver domain via a large amount of I/O activity. The issue relates to misuse of guest physical addresses when a configuration has...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-28039

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.9.x through 5.11.3, as used with Xen. In some less-common configurations, an x86 PV guest OS user can crash a Dom0 or driver domain via a large amount of I/O activity. The issue relates to misuse of guest physical addresses when a configuration has...

CVE-2021-28039

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.9.x through 5.11.3, as used with Xen. In some less-common configurations, an x86 PV guest OS user can crash a Dom0 or driver domain via a large amount of I/O activity. The issue relates to misuse of guest physical addresses when a configuration has...

CVE-2021-28039

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.9.x through 5.11.3, as used with Xen. In some less-common configurations, an x86 PV guest OS user can crash a Dom0 or driver domain via a large amount of I/O activity. The issue relates to misuse of guest physical addresses when a configuration has...

CVE-2021-28039

CVE-2021-28039 affects the Linux kernel 5.9.x–5.11.3 (used with Xen). In some configurations, an x86 PV guest OS user can crash the Dom0 or a driver domain by generating a large amount of I/O. Root cause is the misuse of guest physical addresses when CONFIG_XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC is set but CONFIG...

CVE-2021-28039

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.9.x through 5.11.3, as used with Xen. In some less-common configurations, an x86 PV guest OS user can crash a Dom0 or driver domain via a large amount of I/O activity. The issue relates to misuse of guest physical addresses when a configuration has...

CVE-2021-28039

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.9.x through 5.11.3, as used with Xen. In some less-common configurations, an x86 PV guest OS user can crash a Dom0 or driver domain via a large amount of I/O activity. The issue relates to misuse of guest physical addresses when a configuration has...

Linux: special config may crash when trying to map foreign pages

ISSUE DESCRIPTION With CONFIGXENBALLOONMEMORYHOTPLUG disabled and CONFIGXENUNPOPULATEDALLOC enabled the Linux kernel will use guest physical addresses allocated via the ZONEDEVICE functionality for mapping foreign guest's pages. This will result in problems, as the p2m list will only cover the...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2021-9007)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9007 advisory. - xen-blkback: set ring-xenblkd to NULL after kthreadstop Pawel Wieczorkiewicz Orabug: 32260252 CVE-2020-29569 - xenbus/xenbusbackend: Disallow...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4680-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4680-1 advisory. It was discovered that debugfs in the Linux kernel as used by blktrace contained a use-after-free in some situations. A privileged local...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4679-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4679-1 advisory. It was discovered that the console keyboard driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition. A local attacker could use this to expose...

Xen oxenstored DoS (XSA-352)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to an issue with oxenstored. A malicious guest administrator can change xenstore node ownership to run another guest out of quota, or create an...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Xen XAPI before 2020-12-15. Certain xenstore keys provide feedback from the guest, and are therefore watched by toolstack. Specifically, keys are watched by xenopsd, and data are forwarded via RPC through message-switch to xapi. The watching logic in xenopsd sends one R...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29569

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.10.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. The Linux kernel PV block backend expects the kernel thread handler to reset ring-xenblkd to NULL when stopped. However, the handler may not have time to run if the frontend quickly toggles between the...

CVE-2020-29569

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.10.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. The Linux kernel PV block backend expects the kernel thread handler to reset ring-xenblkd to NULL when stopped. However, the handler may not have time to run if the frontend quickly toggles between the...

CVE-2020-29569

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.10.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. The Linux kernel PV block backend expects the kernel thread handler to reset ring-xenblkd to NULL when stopped. However, the handler may not have time to run if the frontend quickly toggles between the...

Use after free triggered by block frontend in Linux blkback

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The Linux kernel PV block backend expects the kernel thread handler to reset ring-xenblkd to NULL when stopped. However, the handler may not have time to run if the frontend quickly toggle between the states connect and disconnect. As a consequence, the block backend may re-use ...

XAPI: guest-triggered excessive memory usage

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Certain xenstore keys provide feedback from the guest, and are therefore watched by toolstack. Specifically, keys are watched by xenopsd, and data are forward via RPC through message-switch to xapi. The watching logic in xenopsd sends one RPC update containing all data, any time...