Type confusion

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry...

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-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...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:2864-1)

This update for xen fixes several issues: These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host...