Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3777-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3777-2 advisory. USN-3777-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

USN-3777-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence number overflows, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-17182 It was discovered that the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15594

arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 mishandles certain indirect calls, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct Spectre-v2 attacks against paravirtual guests...

DEBIAN-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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12891

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12891

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. Certain PV MMU operations may take a long time to process. For that reason Xen explicitly checks for the need to preempt the current vCPU at certain points. A few rarely taken code paths did bypass such checks. By suitably enforcing the conditions...

Xen Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-04652)

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor developed by the Xen Project. A denial of service vulnerability exists in 4.10.x and earlier versions of Xen. x86 PV guest OS users can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service host OS CPU hang via a non-preemptive L3/L4 page table...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7542

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.10.x allowing x86 PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and hypervisor crash by leveraging the mishandling of configurations that lack a Local APIC...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17566

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page...

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors, related to uncontrolled resource consumption, allows attackers to cause service failures or increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors is related to an uncontrolled consumption of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating locally within the user account of the x86 operating system in a paravirtualization mode, to cause service interruptions unlimited...

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors, related to errors in access rights comparison, allows attackers to increase their privileges or cause service failures.

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors is related to access authorization errors that occur when permissions for guest x86 operating systems running in PV mode are removed or changed. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a local attacker to increase their privileges or cause service failures...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15595

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15595

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15593

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service memory leak because reference counts are mishandled...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-15593

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service memory leak because reference counts are mishandled...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-15595

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-14319

A grant unmapping issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x. When removing or replacing a grant mapping, the x86 PV specific path needs to make sure page table entries remain in sync with other accounting done. Although the identity of the page frame was validated correctly, neither the presence ...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-12137

arch/x86/mm.c in Xen allows local PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges via vectors related to mapgrantref...

Xen: Privilege Escalation

Background Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor. Description In CIRRUSBLTMODEMEMSYSSRC mode the bitblit copy routine cirrusbitbltcputovideo fails to check wethehr the specified memory region is safe. Impact A local attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of Xen QEMU process on...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7092

The getpagefroml3e function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges via vectors related to L3 recursive pagetables...