CVE-2016-1570

The PV superpage functionality in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 3.4.0, 3.4.1, and 4.1.x through 4.6.x allows local PV guests to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service, gain privileges, or have unspecified other impact via a crafted page identifier MFN to the 1 MMUEXTMARKSUPER or 2...

PV superpage functionality missing sanity checks

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The PV superpage functionality lacks certain validity checks on data being passed to the hypervisor by guests. This is the case for the page identifier MFN passed to MMUEXTMARKSUPER and MMUEXTUNMARKSUPER sub-ops of the HYPERVISORmmuextop hypercall as well as for various forms of...

xen-kernel -- PV superpage functionality missing sanity checks

The Xen Project reports: The PV superpage functionality lacks certain validity checks on data being passed to the hypervisor by guests. This is the case for the page identifier MFN passed to MMUEXTMARKSUPER and MMUEXTUNMARKSUPER sub-ops of the HYPERVISORmmuextop hypercall as well as for various...

FreeBSD : xen-tools -- libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error (5d1d4473-b40d-11e5-9728-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : When constructing a guest which is configured to use a PV bootloader which runs as a userspace process in the toolstack domain e.g. pygrub libxl creates a mapping of the files to be used as kernel and initial ramdisk when building the guest domain. However if building th...

Debian DSA-3434-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. - CVE-2015-7513 It was discovered that a local user permitted to use the x86 KVM subsystem could configure the PIT emulation to cause a denial of servic...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3434-1] linux security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3434-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Ben Hutchings January 05, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3434-1 (linux - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. CVE-2015-7513 It was discovered that a local user permitted to use the x86 KVM subsystem could configure the PIT emulation to cause a denial of service...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : grub2 (SUSE-SU-2015:2386-1)

This update for grub2 provides the following fixes : A security issues with a bufferoverflow when reading username and password was fixed bsc956631, CVE-2015-8370 Bugs fixed : - Expand list of grub.cfg search path in PV Xen guests for systems installed on btrfs snapshots. bsc946148, bsc952539 - A...

Xen PV Backend Driver远程代码执行漏洞

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Xen PV Backend Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor product developed at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. A security vulnerability in Xen PV Backend Driver allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to submit a special request for a denial-of-service attack or can execute...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8550

Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service host OS crash or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability...

libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When constructing a guest which is configured to use a PV bootloader which runs as a userspace process in the toolstack domain e.g. pygrub libxl creates a mapping of the files to be used as kernel and initial ramdisk when building the guest domain. However if building the domain...

xen-tools -- libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error

The Xen Project reports: When constructing a guest which is configured to use a PV bootloader which runs as a userspace process in the toolstack domain e.g. pygrub libxl creates a mapping of the files to be used as kernel and initial ramdisk when building the guest domain. However if building the...

x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When a benign exception occurs while delivering another benign exception, it is architecturally specified that these would be delivered sequentially. There are, however, cases where this results in an infinite loop inside the CPU, which in the virtualized case can be broken only...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:1853-1)

xen was updated to fix nine security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-4037: The slirpsmb function in net/slirp.c created temporary files with predictable names, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service instantiation failure by creating /tmp/qemu-smb.- files befo...

Design/Logic Flaw

The modl2entry function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 3.4 through 4.6.x does not properly validate level 2 page table entries, which allows local PV guest administrators to gain privileges via a crafted superpage mapping...

CVE-2015-7835

The modl2entry function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 3.4 through 4.6.x does not properly validate level 2 page table entries, which allows local PV guest administrators to gain privileges via a crafted superpage mapping...

x86: Long latency populate-on-demand operation is not preemptible

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When running an HVM domain in Populate-on-Demand mode, Xen would sometimes search the domain for memory to reclaim, in response to demands for population of other pages in the same domain. This search runs without preemption. The guest can, by suitable arrangement of its memory...

x86: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The code to validate level 2 page table entries is bypassed when certain conditions are satisfied. This means that a PV guest can create writeable mappings using super page mappings. Such writeable mappings can violate Xen intended invariants for pages which Xen is supposed to...

x86: populate-on-demand balloon size inaccuracy can crash guests

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The design of the memory populate-on-demand PoD system requires that a guest's memory ballooning driver reach its memory reduction target. The target is not entirely well-defined in terms of the information visible to the appropriate parts of the system, so some unknown set of...