xen-tools -- populate-on-demand balloon size inaccuracy can crash guests

The Xen Project reports: Guests configured with PoD might be unstable, especially under load. In an affected guest, an unprivileged guest user might be able to cause a guest crash, perhaps simply by applying load so as to cause heavy memory pressure within the guest...

Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities

A vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component prior to 4.0.34, 4.1.42, 4.2.34, 4.3.32 and 5.0.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4813

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox prior to 4.0.34, 4.1.42, 4.2.34, 4.3.32, and 5.0.8, when using a Windows guest, allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Core...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2010-0046)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RedHat Update for spice RHSA-2015:1714-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When unplugging an emulated block device the device was not fully unplugged, meaning a second unplug attempt would attempt to unplug the device a second time using a previously freed pointer. IMPACT An HVM guest which has access to an emulated IDE disk device may be able to...

QEMU heap overflow flaw while processing certain ATAPI commands.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The QEMU security team has predisclosed the following advisory: A heap overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's IDE subsystem handled I/O buffer access while processing certain ATAPI commands. A privileged guest user in a guest with CDROM drive enabled could potentially use thi...

FreeBSD : xen-tools -- PCI MSI mask bits inadvertently exposed to guests (4db8a0f4-27e9-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : The mask bits optionally available in the PCI MSI capability structure are used by the hypervisor to occasionally suppress interrupt delivery. Unprivileged guests were, however, nevertheless allowed direct control of these bits. Interrupts may be observed by Xen at...

FreeBSD : xen-kernel and xen-tools -- Long latency MMIO mapping operations are not preemptible (d40c66cb-27e4-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : The XENDOMCTLmemorymapping hypercall allows long running operations without implementing preemption. This hypercall is used by the device model as part of the emulation associated with configuration of PCI devices passed through to HVM guests and is therefore indirectly...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4164

The compatiret function in Xen 3.1 through 4.5 iterates the wrong way through a loop, which allows local 32-bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service large loop and system hang via a hypercalliret call with EFLAGS.VM set...

Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.2-5.fc21 (2015-9466)

Potential unintended writes to host MSI message data field via qemu XSA-128, CVE-2015-4103, PCI MSI mask bits inadvertently exposed to guests XSA-129, CVE-2015-4104, Guest triggerable qemu MSI-X pass-through error messages XSA-130, CVE-2015-4105, Unmediated PCI register access in qemu XSA-131,...

vulnerability in the iret hypercall handler

ISSUE DESCRIPTION A buggy loop in Xen's compatiret function iterates the wrong way around a 32-bit index. Any 32-bit PV guest kernel can trigger this vulnerability by attempting a hypercalliret with EFLAGS.VM set. Given the use of get/putuser, and that the virtual addresses in question are...

Heap overflow in QEMU PCNET controller, allowing guest->host escape

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The QEMU security team has predisclosed the following advisory: pcnettransmit loads a transmit-frame descriptor from the guest into the /tmd/ local variable to recover a length field, a status field and a guest-physical location of the associated frame buffer. If the status fiel...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-4106

QEMU does not properly restrict write access to the PCI config space for certain PCI pass-through devices, which might allow local x86 HVM guests to gain privileges, cause a denial of service host crash, obtain sensitive information, or possibly have other unspecified impact via unknown vectors...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-4104

Xen 3.3.x through 4.5.x does not properly restrict access to PCI MSI mask bits, which allows local x86 HVM guest users to cause a denial of service unexpected interrupt and host crash via unspecified vectors...

Design/Logic Flaw

QEMU does not properly restrict write access to the PCI config space for certain PCI pass-through devices, which might allow local x86 HVM guests to gain privileges, cause a denial of service host crash, obtain sensitive information, or possibly have other unspecified impact via unknown vectors...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4103

Xen 3.3.x through 4.5.x does not properly restrict write access to the host MSI message data field, which allows local x86 HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service host interrupt handling confusion via vectors related to qemu and accessing spanning multiple fields...

CVE-2015-4105

Xen 3.3.x through 4.5.x enables logging for PCI MSI-X pass-through error messages, which allows local x86 HVM guests to cause a denial of service host disk consumption via certain invalid operations...

PCI MSI mask bits inadvertently exposed to guests

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The mask bits optionally available in the PCI MSI capability structure are used by the hypervisor to occasionally suppress interrupt delivery. Unprivileged guests were, however, nevertheless allowed direct control of these bits. IMPACT Interrupts may be observed by Xen at...

Guest triggerable qemu MSI-X pass-through error messages

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Device model code dealing with guest PCI MSI-X interrupt management activities logs messages on certain supposedly invalid guest operations. IMPACT A buggy or malicious guest repeatedly invoking such operations may result in the host disk to fill up, possibly leading to a Denial...