CVE-2018-12893

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. One of the fixes in XSA-260 added some safety checks to help prevent Xen livelocking with debug exceptions. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, at least one of these safety checks can be triggered by a guest. A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leading to a Denial of Service. All Xen systems which have applied the XSA-260 fix are vulnerable. Only x86 systems are vulnerable. ARM systems are not vulnerable. Only x86 PV guests can exploit the vulnerability. x86 HVM and PVH guests cannot exploit the vulnerability. An attacker needs to be able to control hardware debugging facilities to exploit the vulnerability, but such permissions are typically available to unprivileged users.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/27/11

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104572

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041202

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-265.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1590979

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00013.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX235748

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4236

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

CVSS v3.0