Linear pagetable use / entry miscounts

ISSUE DESCRIPTION "Linear pagetables" is a technique which involves either pointing a pagetable at itself, or to another pagetable of the same or higher level. Xen has limited support for linear pagetables: A page may either point to itself, or point to another pagetable of the same level i.e., L...

Xen Restartable PV Type Change Operations Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (XSA-299)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to race conditions in the pagetable promotion and demotion operations. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, by triggering...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-18421

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen...

CVE-2019-18421

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen...

Race condition

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18421

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen...

CVE-2019-18421

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen...

CVE-2019-18421

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen...

CVE-2019-18421

CVE-2019-18421 affects the Xen hypervisor on x86 PV guests. Root cause: restartable PV type changes with recursive pagetable promotions/demotions contain races that can lead to incorrect type counts, enabling a PV guest to gain host privileges. Impact: local privilege escalation to host OS on all...

CVE-2019-18421

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen...

Issues with restartable PV type change operations

ISSUE DESCRIPTION To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen exposes the actual hardware pagetables to the guest. In order to prevent the guest from modifying these page tables directly, Xen keeps track of how pages are used using a type system; pages must be "promoted" before being used...

PT-2019-4883 · Xen +1 · Xen +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Xen versions through 4.12.x Description: The issue is related to a flaw in restartable PV type change operations, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause a denial of...

CVE-2019-17348

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers PCID and shadow-pagetable switching...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-17348

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers PCID and shadow-pagetable switching...

CVE-2019-17348

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers PCID and shadow-pagetable switching...

Denial of service

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers PCID and shadow-pagetable switching...

CVE-2019-17348

CVE-2019-17348 affects the Xen hypervisor (up to 4.11.x) and is triggered on x86 PV guests. The root cause is an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers (PCID) and shadow-pagetable switching, allowing a local x86 PV guest to cause a Denial of Service or potentially gain privileges. Pu...

CVE-2019-17348

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers PCID and shadow-pagetable switching...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-974)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to 4.12.14-lp150.12.28.1 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1108)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's USB subsystem in the usbgetextradescriptor function in the drivers/usb/core/usb.c which mishandles a...