domctl lock open to abuse

ISSUE DESCRIPTION To create and manage guests, domctl operations are used by the control domain, a possible Xenstore domain, or by a domain controlling a particular guest. Some of these operations may not be executed in parallel, so a system-wide lock is used. The way that lock is acquired is,...

grant table v2 race in status page mapping

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The adjustments made for XSA-379 as well as those subsequently becoming XSA-387 still left a race window, when a HVM or PVH guest does a grant table version change from v2 to v1 in parallel with mapping the status pages via XENMEMaddtophysmap. Some of the status pages may then b...

USN-974-2: Linux kernel regression

USN-974-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The fixes for CVE-2010-2240 caused failures for Xen hosts. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Gael Delalleu, Rafal Wojtczuk, and Brad Spengler discovered that the memory manager did not...