CVE-2026-42493 x86 shadow paging is deprecated

Addressing certain issues, in particular related to operations which may take excessively long and therefore would need preemption, has turned out overly costly. Since alternatives HVM/PVH: HAP, PV: shim are commonly available, the decision was to deprecate the functionality, while still retainin...

CVE-2021-28708

PoD operations on misaligned GFNs This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE. x86 HVM and PVH guests may be started in populate-on-demand PoD mode, to provide a way for them to later easily have more memory assigne...

FreeBSD -- Xen grant mapping error handling issues

Problem Description: Grant mapping operations often occur in batch hypercalls, where a number of operations are done in a single hypercall, the success or failure of each one reported to the backend driver, and the backend driver then loops over the results, performing follow-up actions based on...

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...

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...

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...