xen-kernel -- x86 HVM: Overflow of sh_ctxt->seg_reg[]

The Xen Project reports: x86 HVM guests running with shadow paging use a subset of the x86 emulator to handle the guest writing to its own pagetables. There are situations a guest can provoke which result in exceeding the space allocated for internal state. A malicious HVM guest administrator can...

Xen 'paging_invlpg' function denial of service vulnerability

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor product developed by the University of Cambridge, UK. The product enables different and incompatible operating systems to run on the same computer and supports runtime migration to ensure uptime and avoid downtime. A security vulnerability exists in t...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1571

The paginginvlpg function in include/asm-x86/paging.h in Xen 3.3.x through 4.6.x, when using shadow mode paging or nested virtualization is enabled, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service host crash via a non-canonical guest address in an INVVPID instruction, which triggers a...