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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Xen Project Preemtible Linear Pagetable Denial of Service Vulnerability (XSA-290)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. Only x86 systems are affected. Note that Nessus has checked the changeset versions based on the xen.git change log. Nessus did not check guest hardware...

missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation

ISSUE DESCRIPTION XSA-273 changes required, among other things, making any PTE updates restartable. The changes making PTE updates restartable assumed that L2 pagetables would always be promoted preemptibly; but this turns out not to be the case when using the 'linear pagetable' feature; the resu...

x86 shadow: Insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Use of Process Context Identifiers PCID was introduced into Xen in order to improve performance after XSA-254 and in particular its Meltdown sub-issue. This enablement implied changes to the TLB flushing logic. One aspect which was overlooked is the safety of switching between...

CVE-2018-20168

Google gVisor before 2018-08-22 reuses a pagetable in a different level with the paging-structure cache intact, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service "physical address not valid" panic via a crafted application...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:4069-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-19824: A local user could exploit a use-after-free in the ALSA driver by supplying a malicious USB Sound device with zero interfaces that is mishandled i...

CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

Design/Logic Flaw

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...