CVE-2018-12891

CVE-2018-12891 affects the Xen hypervisor. A flaw in PV MMU preemption checks allows a malicious/badly-behaved PV guest to bypass preemption and potentially run an unbounded number of iterations, causing a Denial of Service that can freeze the host. Affected are Xen versions through 4.10.x (and o...

Debian DSA-4236-1 : xen - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor : - CVE-2018-12891 It was discovered that insufficient validation of PV MMU operations may result in denial of service. - CVE-2018-12892 It was discovered that libxl fails to honour the 'readonly' flag on HVM-emulated SCSI disks....

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...

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...

preemption checks bypassed in x86 PV MM handling

ISSUE DESCRIPTION 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 through its own page table...

x86: #DB exception safety check can be triggered by a guest

ISSUE DESCRIPTION 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. IMPACT A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leading to a Denial of...

Fedora 26 : xen (2018-eb69078020)

Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM XSA-258 1571867 x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI XSA-259 1571878 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1181-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1177-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...

Citrix XenServer Multiple Security Updates

Description of Problem A number of security vulnerabilities have been identified in Citrix XenServer that may allow malicious code running in a PV guest VM to compromise the host and malicious privileged code running in an HVM guest VM to crash the host. These vulnerabilities affect all currently...

Fedora 27 : xen (2018-604574c943)

Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM XSA-258 1571867 x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI XSA-259 1571878 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10471

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754...

CVE-2018-10471

Technical details for CVE-2018-10471 are not provided in the connected documents. Monitor for updates from Xen security advisories and vendor/maintainer advisories for affected versions and fixes.

CVE-2018-10471

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754...

x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The workaround for the Meltdown vulnerability XSA-254 failed to deal with an error code path connecting the INT 80 handling with general exception handling. This results in an unconditional write attempt of the value zero to an address near 2^64, in cases where a PV guest has no...

Denial of service

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS CPU hang via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing...

CVE-2018-7540

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS CPU hang via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing...

DoS via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Guests have the ability to request removal of memory from themselves. This operation is intended to be requested for normal read/write pages, but is also permitted to be used on other types of pages. So far this in particular included pages pinned to their current type, with the...

SUSE-SU-2018:0472-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks bsc1074562, bsc1068032 - CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were...