SUSE CVE-2020-25602

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. An x86 PV guest can trigger a host OS crash when handling guest access to MSRMISCENABLE. When a guest accesses certain Model Specific Registers, Xen first reads the value from hardware to use as the basis for auditing the guest access. For the...

CVE-2022-33745

insufficient TLB flush for x86 PV guests in shadow mode For migration as well as to work around kernels unaware of L1TF see XSA-273, PV guests may be run in shadow paging mode. To address XSA-401, code was moved inside a function in Xen. This code movement missed a variable changing meaning / val...

Linux: special config may crash when trying to map foreign pages

ISSUE DESCRIPTION With CONFIGXENBALLOONMEMORYHOTPLUG disabled and CONFIGXENUNPOPULATEDALLOC enabled the Linux kernel will use guest physical addresses allocated via the ZONEDEVICE functionality for mapping foreign guest's pages. This will result in problems, as the p2m list will only cover the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18420

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a VCPUOPinitialise hypercall. hypercallcreatecontinuation is a variadic function which uses a printf-like format string to interpret its parameters. Error handling for a bad format...

USN-3050-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-3003-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3001-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3006-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3006-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...