CVE-2018-19963

CVE-2018-19963 affects Xen 4.11 and is caused by mishandling of x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators. It can enable a local HVM guest OS user to crash the host OS or potentially gain host privileges. The connected documents reference Xen advisory XSA-276; no explicit patch/...

CVE-2018-19963

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

CVE-2018-19963

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for external emulators was mishandled...

resource accounting issues in x86 IOREQ server handling

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Allocation of pages used to communicate with external emulators did not follow certain principles that are required for proper life cycle management of guest exposed pages. IMPACT A compromised DM stubdomain may cause Xen to crash, resulting in a DoS Denial of Service affecting...

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...

DEBIAN-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...

x86: Nested VT-x usable even when disabled

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When running HVM guests, virtual extensions are enabled in hardware because Xen is using them. As a result, a guest can blindly execute the virtualisation instructions, and will exit to Xen for processing. In the case that the guest hasn't followed the correct virtual...

x86: Incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling lets guests enable BTS

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The DEBUGCTL MSR contains several debugging features, some of which virtualise cleanly, but some do not. In particular, Branch Trace Store is not virtualised by the processor, and software has to be careful to configure it suitably not to lock up the core. As a result, it must...

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-2018-12893

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...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4236-1] xen security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4236-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff June 27, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

libxl fails to honour readonly flag on HVM emulated SCSI disks

ISSUE DESCRIPTION libxl fails to pass the readonly flag to qemu when setting up a SCSI disk, due to what was probably an erroneous merge conflict resolution. IMPACT Malicious guest administrators or in some situations users may be able to write to supposedly read-only disk images. VULNERABLE...

OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0221)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=5ee0a217664a1fde547afa506e92e4998ed26699 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream...

Security update for xen (important)

This update for xen to version 4.9.2 fixes several issues. This feature was added: - Added script, udev rule and systemd service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU. They are triggered via 'xl vcpu-set domU N' These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandlin...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for xen (openSUSE-SU-2018:1274-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

CVE-2018-10982

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service unexpectedly high interrupt number, array overrun, and hypervisor crash or possibly gain hypervisor privileges by setting up an HPET timer to deliver interrupts in IO-APIC mode, aka vHPET...

CVE-2018-10981

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS infinite loop in situations where a QEMU device model attempts to make invalid transitions between states of a request...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1202-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...