Debian DLA-720-1 : xen security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2016-9379, CVE-2016-9380 XSA-198 pygrub, the boot loader emulator, fails to quote or sanity check its results when reporting them to its...

DLA-720-1 xen - security update

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xen-kernel -- x86 task switch to VM86 mode mis-handled

The Xen Project reports: LDTR, just like TR, is purely a protected mode facility. Hence even when switching to a VM86 mode task, LDTR loading needs to follow protected mode semantics. This was violated by the code. On SVM AMD hardware: a malicious unprivileged guest process can escalate its...