CVE-2012-5515

The 1 XENMEMdecreasereservation, 2 XENMEMpopulatephysmap, and 3 XENMEMexchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service long loop and hang via a crafted extentorder value...

PT-2012-6000

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions prior to 4.2 Description The issue allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service, resulting in a long loop and hang, by utilizing crafted extent order values in specific hypercalls. The affected hypercalls include...

several hypercalls do not validate input GFNs

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The function getpagefromgfn does not validate its input GFN. An invalid GFN passed to a hypercall which uses this function will cause the hypervisor to read off the end of the frame table and potentially crash. IMPACT A malicious guest administrator of a PV guest can cause Xen t...

kernel: xen: off-by-one shift in x86_64 __addr_ok()

Off-by-one error in the addrok macro in Xen 3.3 and earlier allows local 64 bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service host crash via unspecified hypercalls that ignore virtual-address bits...

PT-2013-1400 · Xen +1 · Xen +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Xen versions 3.3 and earlier Description: The issue is related to an off-by-one error in the addr ok macro, which can be exploited by local 64-bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host crash. This can be...

Debian DSA-1907-1 : kvm - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in kvm, a full virtualization system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2008-5714 Chris Webb discovered an off-by-one bug limiting KVM's VNC passwords to 7 characters. This flaw might make it...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1907-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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...

DSA-1907-1 kvm - several vulnerabilities

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kvm privilege escalation

kvmemulatehypercall doesn't filter MMU hypercalls from ring 0...

kernel: KVM: x86: Disallow hypercalls for guest callers in rings > 0

The kvmemulatehypercall function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in KVM in the Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc1, and other versions before 2.6.31, when running on x86 systems, does not prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest kernel crash and...

CVE-2009-3290: Undefined Security Weakness

The kvmemulatehypercall function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in KVM in the Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc1, and other versions before 2.6.31, when running on x86 systems, does not prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest kernel crash and...