CVE-2022-1789

CVE-2022-1789 targets KVM in the Linux kernel. With shadow paging enabled, INVPCID can lead to a NULL pointer dereference when CR0.PG=0, because the invlpg callback is not set, causing a crash in kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva. The same issue is echoed in Astra Linux and AlmaLinux advisories, which list KVM...

CVE-2022-1789

With shadow paging enabled, the INVPCID instruction results in a call to kvmmmuinvpcidgva. If INVPCID is executed with CR0.PG=0, the invlpg callback is not set and the result is a NULL pointer dereference...

CVE-2022-1789

A flaw was found in KVM. With shadow paging enabled if INVPCID is executed with CR0.PG=0, the invlpg callback is not set, and the result is a NULL pointer dereference. This flaw allows a guest user to cause a kernel oops condition on the host, resulting in a denial of service. Mitigation Mitigati...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:13921-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Xen Inverted Conditional DoS (XSA-319)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by an issue allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a hypervisor crash. An inverted conditional in x86 HVM guests' dirty video RAM tracking code allows such guests to make Xen de-reference ...

ALPINE-CVE-2020-15563

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a hypervisor crash. An inverted conditional in x86 HVM guests' dirty video RAM tracking code allows such guests to make Xen de-reference a pointer guaranteed to point at unmapped space. A malicious or buggy HV...

CVE-2020-15563

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a hypervisor crash. An inverted conditional in x86 HVM guests' dirty video RAM tracking code allows such guests to make Xen de-reference a pointer guaranteed to point at unmapped space. A malicious or buggy HV...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15563

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a hypervisor crash. An inverted conditional in x86 HVM guests' dirty video RAM tracking code allows such guests to make Xen de-reference a pointer guaranteed to point at unmapped space. A malicious or buggy HV...

Fedora 28 : xen (2019-bce6498890)

xen: various flaws 1685577 grant table transfer issues on large hosts XSA-284 race with pass-through device hotplug XSA-285 x86: stealpage violates pagestruct access discipline XSA-287 x86: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline XSA-288 missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation XSA-290 x86/P...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2018-1624) (Foreshadow)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : Update to Xen 4.10.2 bug fix release bsc1027519. Security vulnerabilities fixed : - CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, m...

CVE-2018-19966

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorre...

Xen Project XSA-240 Mitigation Shadow Paging Conflict Vulnerability (XSA-280)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability allowing a guest system to potentially elevate privileges, access protected information, and perform a DoS against the host. A number of caveats exist to determine if a...

Xen Shadow Paging Conflict Vulnerability

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor developed by the Xen Project. A shadow paging conflict vulnerability exists in 4.11.x and earlier versions of Xen, which stems from an interpretational conflict in the union data structure associated with shadow paging, and can be exploited by a user ...

CVE-2018-19966

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorre...

CVE-2018-19966

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorre...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-19966

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorre...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19966

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorre...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19966

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorre...

CVE-2018-19966

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorre...

Fix for XSA-240 conflicts with shadow paging

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The fix for XSA-240 introduced a new field into the control structure associated with each page of RAM. This field was added to a union, another member of which is used when Xen uses shadow paging for the guest. During migration, or with the L1TF XSA-273 mitigation for PV guests...