CVE-2024-45818

CVE-2024-45818 describes a deadlock in the Xen hypervisor’s x86 HVM standard VGA handling. The vulnerability arises from a locking discipline where a lock is acquired and not released before returning from the function, causing a second memory access touching VGA memory to attempt reacquiring the...

CVE-2024-45818 Deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling

The hypervisor contains code to accelerate VGA memory accesses for HVM guests, when the virtual VGA is in "standard" mode. Locking involved there has an unusual discipline, leaving a lock acquired past the return from the function that acquired it. This behavior results in a problem when emulatin...

SUSE-SU-2024:4116-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-45818: Fixed deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling XSA-463 bsc1232622. - CVE-2024-45819: Fixed libxl data leaks to PVH guests via ACPI tables XSA-464 bsc1232624. Bug fixes: - Remove usage of net-tools-deprecated from supportconfig...

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: CVE-2024-45818: xen: Deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling bsc1232622 CVE-2024-45819: xen: libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables bsc1232624 Non-security issue fixed: Xen host hung at boot up with repeated "XEN API...

SUSE-SU-2024:3977-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-45818: Fixed deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling XSA-463 bsc1232622. - CVE-2024-45819: Fixed libxl data leaks to PVH guests via ACPI tables XSA-464 bsc1232624. Bug fixes: - Remove usage of net-tools-deprecated from supportconfig...