Security update for xen (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for xen Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1226-1 Rating: important References: 1026236 1027519 1069468 1105528 1114988 1115040 1115045 1115047 1116380 1117756 1119161 1123157 1126140 1126141 1126192 1126195 1126196 1126197 1126198 1126201 1126325 1127400...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:0891-1)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : Fixed an issue which could allow malicious PV guests may cause a host crash or gain access to data pertaining to other guests.Additionally, vulnerable configurations are likely to be unstable even in the absence of an attack...

x86: steal_page violates page_struct access discipline

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Xen's reference counting rules were designed to allow pages to change owner and state without requiring a global lock. Each page has a page structure, and a very specific set of access disciplines must be observed to ensure that pages are freed properly, and that no writable...

grant table transfer issues on large hosts

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When the code processing grant table transfer requests finds a page with an address too large to be represented in the interface with the guest, it allocates a replacement page and copies page contents. However, the code doing so fails to set the newly allocated page's accountin...

Privilege Escalation

xen is vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. The vulnerability exists as the 1 ioportread and 2 ioportwrite functions in Xen, when qemu is used as a device model within Xen, might allow local x86 HVM guest OS administrators to gain qemu process privileges via vectors involving an out-of-ran...

Fedora 28 : xen (2018-a7862a75f5)

preemption checks bypassed in x86 PV MM handling XSA-264, CVE-2018-12891 1595959 x86: DB exception safety check can be triggered by a guest XSA-265, CVE-2018-12893 1595958 libxl fails to honour readonly flag on HVM emulated SCSI disks XSA-266, CVE-2018-12892 1595957 Note that Tenable Network...

CVE-2018-19963

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

Xen Project x86 IOREQ Server Resource Accounting DoS (XSA-276)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a guest-to-host denial of service vulnerability. An attacker located on a guest virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to affect the availability of the host system. Th...

Xen Project Guest p2m Page Removal Error Handling DoS (XSA-277)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a guest-to-host denial of service vulnerability. An attacker located on a guest virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to affect the availability of the host system. On...

CVE-2018-19963

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

CVE-2018-19963

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

CVE-2018-19963

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

CVE-2018-19963

CVE-2018-19963 affects Xen 4.11 and is caused by mishandling of x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators. It can enable a local HVM guest OS user to crash the host OS or potentially gain host privileges. The connected documents reference Xen advisory XSA-276; no explicit patch/...

CVE-2018-19963

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

CVE-2018-19963

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

resource accounting issues in x86 IOREQ server handling

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Allocation of pages used to communicate with external emulators did not follow certain principles that are required for proper life cycle management of guest exposed pages. IMPACT A compromised DM stubdomain may cause Xen to crash, resulting in a DoS Denial of Service affecting...

CVE-2018-18883

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9.x through 4.11.x, on Intel x86 platforms, allowing x86 HVM and PVH guests to cause a host OS denial of service NULL pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact because nested VT-x is not properly restricted...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18883

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9.x through 4.11.x, on Intel x86 platforms, allowing x86 HVM and PVH guests to cause a host OS denial of service NULL pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact because nested VT-x is not properly restricted...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18883

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9.x through 4.11.x, on Intel x86 platforms, allowing x86 HVM and PVH guests to cause a host OS denial of service NULL pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact because nested VT-x is not properly restricted...