FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guests (4d7cf654-ba4d-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : Instructions touching FPU, MMX, or XMM registers are required to raise a Device Not Available Exception NM when either CR0.EM or CR0.TS are set. Their AVX or AVX-512 extensions would consider only CR0.TS. While during normal operation this is ensured by the hardware, if ...

FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- x86 HVM: Overflow of sh_ctxt->seg_reg[] (4aae54be-ba4d-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : x86 HVM guests running with shadow paging use a subset of the x86 emulator to handle the guest writing to its own pagetables. There are situations a guest can provoke which result in exceeding the space allocated for internal state. A malicious HVM guest administrator ca...

CVE-2016-9381

Race condition in QEMU in Xen allows local x86 HVM guest OS administrators to gain privileges by changing certain data on shared rings, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability...

qemu incautious about shared ring processing

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The compiler can emit optimizations in qemu which can lead to double fetch vulnerabilities. Specifically data on the rings shared between qemu and the hypervisor which the guest under control can obtain mappings of can be fetched twice during which time the guest can alter the...

x86 segment base write emulation lacking canonical address checks

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Both writes to the FS and GS register base MSRs as well as the WRFSBASE and WRGSBASE instructions require their input values to be canonical, or a GP fault will be raised. When the use of those instructions by the hypervisor was enabled, the previous guard against GP faults havi...

x86 software interrupt injection mis-handled

ISSUE DESCRIPTION There are two closely-related bugs. When Xen emulates instructions which generate software interrupts it needs to perform a privilege check involving an IDT lookup. This check is sometimes erroneously conducted as if the IDT had the format for a 32-bit guest, when in fact it is ...

x86 task switch to VM86 mode mis-handled

ISSUE DESCRIPTION LDTR, just like TR, is purely a protected mode facility. Hence even when switching to a VM86 mode task, LDTR loading needs to follow protected mode semantics. This was violated by the code. IMPACT On SVM AMD hardware: a malicious unprivileged guest process can escalate its...

x86 null segments not always treated as unusable

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The Xen x86 emulator erroneously failed to consider the unusability of segments when performing memory accesses. The intended behaviour is as follows: The user data segment %ds, %es, %fs and %gs selectors may be NULL in 32-bit to prevent access. In 64-bit, NULL has a special...

Fedora 25 : xen (2016-81e5a36d8c)

enable xen livepatch in hypervisor via .config file qemu-kvm: Directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend CVE-2016-7116 qemu: hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite CVE-2016-7161 CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guest XSA-190, CVE-2016-7777 Note that Tenable Network...

Debian DLA-699-1 : xen security update

Xen does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the hypervisor is preparing to emulate it. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', thes...

[SECURITY] [DLA 699-1] xen security update

Package : xen Version : 4.1.6.lts1-3 CVE ID : CVE-2016-7777 Xen does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the...

CVE-2016-7777 - Citrix XenServer Security Update

Description of Problem A security vulnerability has been identified in Citrix XenServer that may allow malicious user code within an HVM guest VM to read or modify the contents of certain registers belonging to other tasks within that same guest VM. This vulnerability affects all currently...

ALPINE-CVE-2016-7777

Xen 4.7.x and earlier does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the hypervisor is preparing to emulate it...

CVE-2016-7777

Xen 4.7.x and earlier does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the hypervisor is preparing to emulate it...

Information disclosure

Xen 4.7.x and earlier does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the hypervisor is preparing to emulate it...

CVE-2016-7777

Xen 4.7.x and earlier does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the hypervisor is preparing to emulate it...

CVE-2016-7777

Xen 4.7.x and earlier does not properly honor CR0.TS and CR0.EM, which allows local x86 HVM guest OS users to read or modify FPU, MMX, or XMM register state information belonging to arbitrary tasks on the guest by modifying an instruction while the hypervisor is preparing to emulate it...

xen-kernel -- CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guests

The Xen Project reports: Instructions touching FPU, MMX, or XMM registers are required to raise a Device Not Available Exception NM when either CR0.EM or CR0.TS are set. Their AVX or AVX-512 extensions would consider only CR0.TS. While during normal operation this is ensured by the hardware, if a...

Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04, RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 Guests

Customers who wish to upgrade existing Linux guests to versions which now operate in HVM mode that is, RHEL7, CentOS 7, and Ubuntu 14.04 should perform an in-guest upgrade. At this point, the upgraded Guest will only run in PV mode - which is not supported and has known issues. Customers should r...

Xen Multiple Vulnerabilities (XSA-186, XSA-187)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists due to improper handling of instruction pointer truncation when emulating HVM instructions. An attacker on the guest can exploit this to gain...