Debian DSA-3554-1 : xen - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159 XSA-172 Jan Beulich from SUSE discovered that Xen does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit whe...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3554-1 (xen - security update)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159 XSA-172 Jan Beulich from SUSE discovered that Xen does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when...

DSA-3554-1 xen - security update

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x86 shadow pagetables: address width overflow

ISSUE DESCRIPTION In the x86 shadow pagetable code, the guest frame number of a superpage mapping is stored in a 32-bit field. If a shadowed guest can cause a superpage mapping of a guest-physical address at or above 2^44 to be shadowed, the top bits of the address will be lost, causing an...

xen-kernel -- x86 shadow pagetables: address width overflow

The Xen Project reports: In the x86 shadow pagetable code, the guest frame number of a superpage mapping is stored in a 32-bit field. If a shadowed guest can cause a superpage mapping of a guest-physical address at or above 2^44 to be shadowed, the top bits of the address will be lost, causing an...

CVE-2016-3961

Xen and the Linux kernel through 4.5.x do not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area...

Design/Logic Flaw

Xen and the Linux kernel through 4.5.x do not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area...

CVE-2016-3961

Xen and the Linux kernel through 4.5.x do not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area...

CVE-2016-3961

Xen and the Linux kernel through 4.5.x do not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area...

CVE-2016-3961

Xen and the Linux kernel through 4.5.x do not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which allows local PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area...

Double free

Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service host OS crash or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability...

hugetlbfs use may crash PV Linux guests

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Huge 2Mb pages are generally unavailable to PV guests. Since x86 Linux pvops-based kernels are generally multi purpose, they would normally be built with hugetlbfs support enabled. Use of that functionality by an application in a PV guest would cause an infinite page fault loop,...

CVE-2016-3157

The switchto function in arch/x86/kernel/process64.c in the Linux kernel does not properly context-switch IOPL on 64-bit PV Xen guests, which allows local guest OS users to gain privileges, cause a denial of service guest OS crash, or obtain sensitive information by leveraging I/O port access...

Design/Logic Flaw

The switchto function in arch/x86/kernel/process64.c in the Linux kernel does not properly context-switch IOPL on 64-bit PV Xen guests, which allows local guest OS users to gain privileges, cause a denial of service guest OS crash, or obtain sensitive information by leveraging I/O port access...

CVE-2016-3157

The switchto function in arch/x86/kernel/process64.c in the Linux kernel does not properly context-switch IOPL on 64-bit PV Xen guests, which allows local guest OS users to gain privileges, cause a denial of service guest OS crash, or obtain sensitive information by leveraging I/O port access...

CVE-2016-3157

The switchto function in arch/x86/kernel/process64.c in the Linux kernel does not properly context-switch IOPL on 64-bit PV Xen guests, which allows local guest OS users to gain privileges, cause a denial of service guest OS crash, or obtain sensitive information by leveraging I/O port access...

kernel-uek security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-32.2.3 - rebuild bumping release 4.1.12-32.2.2 - x86/iopl/64: properly context-switch IOPL on Xen PV Andy Lutomirski Orabug: 22997978 CVE-2016-3157 - fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c: fix bugs in hugetlbvmtruncatelist Mike Kravetz Orabug: 22667863...

broken AMD FPU FIP/FDP/FOP leak workaround

ISSUE DESCRIPTION There is a workaround in Xen to deal with the fact that AMD CPUs don't load the x86 registers FIP and possibly FCS, FDP and possibly FDS, and FOP from memory via XRSTOR or FXRSTOR when there is no pending unmasked exception. See XSA-52. However, this workaround does not cover al...

I/O port access privilege escalation in x86-64 Linux

ISSUE DESCRIPTION IRET and POPF do not modify EFLAGS.IOPL when executed by code at a privilege level other than zero. Since PV Xen guests run at privilege level 3 for 64-bit ones; 32-bit ones run at privilege level 1, to compensate for this the context switching of EFLAGS.IOPL requires the guest ...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: When running as a Xen 64-bit PV guest, user mode processes not supposed to be able to access I/O ports may be granted such permission, potentially resulting in one or more of in-guest privilege escalation, guest crashes Denial of Service, or in-guest information leaks. CVE-2016-31...