CVE-2019-12996

CVE-2019-12996 affects Mendix 7.23.5 and earlier. The issue arises in XML import mappings where DOCTYPE declarations in the XML input can be processed, described as potentially unsafe. The connected documents confirm the affected version range but do not provide concrete exploit details, affected...

Linux: No grant table and foreign mapping limits

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Virtual device backends and device models running in domain 0, or other backend driver domains, need to be able to map guest memory either via grant mappings, or via the foreign mapping interface. Inside Xen, mapped grants are tracked by the maptrack structure. The size of this...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-4031-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4031-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly separate certain memory mappings when creating new userspace processes on 64-bit Power ppc64el systems. A...

USN-4031-1 linux, linux-hwe vulnerability

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly separate certain memory mappings when creating new userspace processes on 64-bit Power ppc64el systems. A local attacker could use this to access memory contents or cause memory corruption of other processes on the system...

Debian DLA-1799-2 : linux security update (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. This updated advisory text adds a note about the need to install new binary packages. CVE-2018-5995 ADLab of VenusTech discovered that the kernel logge...

USN-3982-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3982-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ke Sun, Henrique Kawakami, Kekai Hu, Rodrigo Branco, Giorgi Maisuradze, Dan Horea Lutas,...

Sensitive Information Disclosure

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPv6 implementation handled certain UDP packets when the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO feature was enabled. A remot...

Linux kernel vfio-type1-DMA-Mappings Denial of Service Vulnerability

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. A security vulnerability in Linux kernel vfio-type1-DMA-Mappings allows local attackers to exploit the vulnerability to submit special requests that can crash the system...

Fedora 28 : xen (2019-bce6498890)

xen: various flaws 1685577 grant table transfer issues on large hosts XSA-284 race with pass-through device hotplug XSA-285 x86: stealpage violates pagestruct access discipline XSA-287 x86: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline XSA-288 missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation XSA-290 x86/P...

Fedora 29 : xen (2018-2fde555d91)

insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs XSA-275 1651665 resource accounting issues in x86 IOREQ server handling XSA-276 x86: incorrect error handling for guest p2m page removals XSA-277 x86: DoS from attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses XSA-279...

CVE-2018-19962

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones...

XNU - POSIX Shared Memory Mappings have Incorrect Maximum Protection

XNU - POSIX Shared Memory Mappings have Incorrect Maximum Protection When the mmap syscall is invoked on a POSIX shared memory segment DTYPEPSXSHM, pshmmmap maps the shared memory segment's pages into the address space of the calling process. It does this with the following code: int prot =...

CVE-2018-19962

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-19962

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19962

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19962

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones...

CVE-2018-19962

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones...

CVE-2018-19962

CVE-2018-19962 (Xen) affects the Xen hypervisor on AMD x86, where guest OS users can potentially escalate to host privileges due to small IOMMU mappings being unsafely merged into larger ones. The vulnerability is rooted in how IOMMU mappings are combined, enabling a malicious or local attacker i...

insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs

ISSUE DESCRIPTION In order to be certain that no undue access to memory is possible anymore after IOMMU mappings of this memory have been removed, Translation Lookaside Buffers TLBs need to be flushed after most changes to such mappings. Xen bypassed certain IOMMU flushes on AMD x86 hardware...