SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:2081-1)

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-12891: Fix preemption checks bypass in x86 PV MM handling XSA-264 bsc1097521. - CVE-2018-12892: Fix libxl failure to honour readonly flag on HVM emulated SCSI disks XSA-266 bsc1097523. - CVE-2018-12893: Fix DB...

CVE-2018-14678

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.11, as used in Xen through 4.11.x. The xenfailsafecallback entry point in arch/x86/entry/entry64.S does not properly maintain RBX, which allows local users to cause a denial of service uninitialized memory usage and system crash. Within Xen...

CVE-2018-14678

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.11, as used in Xen through 4.11.x. The xenfailsafecallback entry point in arch/x86/entry/entry64.S does not properly maintain RBX, which allows local users to cause a denial of service uninitialized memory usage and system crash. Within Xen...

Linux: Uninitialized state in x86 PV failsafe callback path

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Linux has a failsafe callback, invoked by Xen under certain conditions. Normally in this failsafe callback, errorentry is paired with errorexit; and errorentry uses %ebx to communicate to errorexit whether to use the user or kernel return path. Unfortunately, on 64-bit PV Xen on...

CVE-2018-12891

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions...

Hardcoded credentials

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. One of the fixes in XSA-260 added some safety checks to help prevent Xen livelocking with debug exceptions. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, at least one of these safety checks can be triggered by a guest. A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leadi...

CVE-2018-12893

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. One of the fixes in XSA-260 added some safety checks to help prevent Xen livelocking with debug exceptions. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, at least one of these safety checks can be triggered by a guest. A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leadi...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-12893

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. One of the fixes in XSA-260 added some safety checks to help prevent Xen livelocking with debug exceptions. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, at least one of these safety checks can be triggered by a guest. A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leadi...

CVE-2018-12891

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions...

CVE-2018-12891

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions...

CVE-2018-12891

CVE-2018-12891 affects the Xen hypervisor. A flaw in PV MMU preemption checks allows a malicious/badly-behaved PV guest to bypass preemption and potentially run an unbounded number of iterations, causing a Denial of Service that can freeze the host. Affected are Xen versions through 4.10.x (and o...

CVE-2018-12891

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions...

CVE-2018-12891

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions...

CVE-2018-12893

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. One of the fixes in XSA-260 added some safety checks to help prevent Xen livelocking with debug exceptions. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, at least one of these safety checks can be triggered by a guest. A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leadi...

Debian DSA-4236-1 : xen - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor : - CVE-2018-12891 It was discovered that insufficient validation of PV MMU operations may result in denial of service. - CVE-2018-12892 It was discovered that libxl fails to honour the 'readonly' flag on HVM-emulated SCSI disks....

CVE-2018-12893

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. One of the fixes in XSA-260 added some safety checks to help prevent Xen livelocking with debug exceptions. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, at least one of these safety checks can be triggered by a guest. A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leadi...

CVE-2018-12891

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions...

preemption checks bypassed in x86 PV MM handling

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions through its own page table...

x86: #DB exception safety check can be triggered by a guest

ISSUE DESCRIPTION One of the fixes in XSA-260 added some safety checks to help prevent Xen livelocking with debug exceptions. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, at least one of these safety checks can be triggered by a guest. IMPACT A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leading to a Denial of...

Fedora 26 : xen (2018-eb69078020)

Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM XSA-258 1571867 x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI XSA-259 1571878 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...