Denial Of Service (DoS)

xen:edge is vulnerable to denial of service. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches back from v2 to v1. Freeing such pages requires that the hypervisor enforce that...

USN-5073-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

Citrix Releases Security Updates for Hypervisor

Citrix has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Hypervisor. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Citrix Security Update CTX325319 and apply the necessary updates. This product i...

Hotfix XS82E033 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

Who Should Install This Hotfix? This is a hotfix for customers running Citrix Hypervisor 8.2. Information About this Hotfix Component| Details ---|--- Prerequisite| None Post-update tasks| None Content live patchable| No Baselines for Live Patch| N/A Revision History| Published on Sep 09, 2021...

Fedora: Security Advisory for xen (FEDORA-2021-4f129cc0c1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 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...

Fedora: Security Advisory for xen (FEDORA-2021-d68ed12e46)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5071-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Citrix Hypervisor

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Citrix Hypervisor. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious person with administrator privileges within the guest VM to cause a denial-of-service on the host and execute arbitrary code. Citrix has released updates to fix the vulnerabilities. More information ca...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5072-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

USN-5072-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5071-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5070-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

ALPINE-CVE-2021-28701

Another race in XENMAPSPACEgranttable handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches back from v2...

CVE-2021-28701

Another race in XENMAPSPACEgranttable handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches back from v2...

CVE-2021-28701

Another race in XENMAPSPACEgranttable handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches back from v2...

CVE-2021-28701

Another race in XENMAPSPACEgranttable handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches back from v2...

Race condition

Another race in XENMAPSPACEgranttable handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches back from v2...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-28701

Another race in XENMAPSPACEgranttable handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches back from v2...

CVE-2021-28701

Another race in XENMAPSPACEgranttable handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches back from v2...

CVE-2021-28701

CVE-2021-28701 describes a race in Xen’s XENMAPSPACE_grant_table handling where grant-table v2 status pages can be freed while a parallel request maps them, potentially allowing a guest to retain access to freed pages. The enforcement to block new mappings during deallocation was missing. Impact ...