CVE-2020-15567

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing Intel guest OS users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service because of non-atomic modification of a live EPT PTE. When mapping guest EPT nested paging tables, Xen would in some circumstances use a series of non-atomic bitfield write...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing Intel guest OS users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service because of non-atomic modification of a live EPT PTE. When mapping guest EPT nested paging tables, Xen would in some circumstances use a series of non-atomic bitfield write...

non-atomic modification of live EPT PTE

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When mapping guest EPT nested paging tables, Xen would in some circumstances use a series of non-atomic bitfield writes. Depending on the compiler version and optimisation flags, Xen might expose a dangerous partially-written PTE to the hardware, which an attacker might be able ...

Fedora 31 : xen (2019-6aad703290)

denial of service in findnextbit XSA-307, CVE-2019-19581, CVE-2019-19582 1782211 denial of service in HVM/PVH guest userspace code XSA-308, CVE-2019-19583 1782206 privilege escalation due to malicious PV guest XSA-309, CVE-2019-19578 1782210 Further issues with restartable PV type change operatio...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:3296-1)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : CVE-2019-19581: Fixed a potential out of bounds on 32-bit Arm bsc1158003 XSA-307. CVE-2019-19582: Fixed a potential infinite loop when x86 accesses to bitmaps with a compile time known size of 64 bsc1158003 XSA-307. CVE-2019-19583: Fixed improper...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:3297-1)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : CVE-2019-19581: Fixed a potential out of bounds on 32-bit Arm bsc1158003 XSA-307. CVE-2019-19582: Fixed a potential infinite loop when x86 accesses to bitmaps with a compile time known size of 64 bsc1158003 XSA-307. CVE-2019-19583: Fixed improper...

CVE-2019-19583

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 HVM/PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash because VMX VMEntry checks mishandle a certain case. Please see XSA-260 for background on the MovSS shadow. Please see XSA-156 for background on the need for DB...

CVE-2019-19583

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 HVM/PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash because VMX VMEntry checks mishandle a certain case. Please see XSA-260 for background on the MovSS shadow. Please see XSA-156 for background on the need for DB...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 HVM/PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash because VMX VMEntry checks mishandle a certain case. Please see XSA-260 for background on the MovSS shadow. Please see XSA-156 for background on the need for DB...

CVE-2019-19583

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 HVM/PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash because VMX VMEntry checks mishandle a certain case. Please see XSA-260 for background on the MovSS shadow. Please see XSA-156 for background on the need for DB...

CVE-2019-19583

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 HVM/PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash because VMX VMEntry checks mishandle a certain case. Please see XSA-260 for background on the MovSS shadow. Please see XSA-156 for background on the need for DB...

CVE-2019-19583

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 HVM/PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash because VMX VMEntry checks mishandle a certain case. Please see XSA-260 for background on the MovSS shadow. Please see XSA-156 for background on the need for DB...

Linear pagetable use / entry miscounts

ISSUE DESCRIPTION "Linear pagetables" is a technique which involves either pointing a pagetable at itself, or to another pagetable of the same or higher level. Xen has limited support for linear pagetables: A page may either point to itself, or point to another pagetable of the same level i.e., L...

VMX: VMentry failure with debug exceptions and blocked states

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Please see XSA-260 for background on the MovSS shadow: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-260.html Please see XSA-156 for background on the need for DB interception: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-156.html The VMX VMEntry checks does not like the exact combination of state...

CVE-2019-18421

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.14.35-1902.4.8 - x86/boot: Clear RSDP address in bootparams for broken loaders Juergen Gross Orabug: 30111373 4.14.35-1902.4.7 - rds: ib: Qualify CM REQ duplicate detection with connection being up Hakon Bugge Orabug: 30062149 - rds: Further prioritize local loop-back connections Hakon Bugge...

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...

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-2018-18883

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...