[oss-security] 20191025 Xen Security Advisory 293 v4 (CVE-2019-17347) - x86: PV kernel context switch corruption

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-293.html

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-293.html

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

CVE-2018-12207: Fixed a race condition where untrusted virtual machines could have been using the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional (bsc#1155945 XSA-304).

CVE-2018-19965: Fixed a DoS from attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses (bsc#1115045 XSA-279).

CVE-2019-11135: Aborting an asynchronous TSX operation on Intel CPUs with Transactional Memory support could be used to facilitate side-channel information leaks out of microarchitectural buffers, similar to the previously described 'Microarchitectural Data Sampling' attack. (bsc#1152497 XSA-305).

CVE-2019-12067: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in QEMU AHCI (bsc#1145652).

CVE-2019-12068: Fixed an infinite loop while executing script (bsc#1146874).

CVE-2019-12155: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference while releasing spice resources (bsc#1135905).

CVE-2019-14378: Fixed a heap buffer overflow during packet reassembly in slirp networking implementation (bsc#1143797).

CVE-2019-15890: Fixed a use-after-free during packet reassembly (bsc#1149813).

CVE-2019-17340: Fixed grant table transfer issues on large hosts (XSA-284 bsc#1126140).

CVE-2019-17341: Fixed a race with pass-through device hotplug (XSA-285 bsc#1126141).

CVE-2019-17342: Fixed steal_page violating page_struct access discipline (XSA-287 bsc#1126192).

CVE-2019-17343: Fixed an inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline (XSA-288 bsc#1126195).

CVE-2019-17344: Fixed a missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation (XSA-290 bsc#1126196).

CVE-2019-17347: Fixed a PV kernel context switch corruption (XSA-293 bsc#1126201).

CVE-2019-18420: Fixed a hypervisor crash that could be caused by malicious x86 PV guests, resulting in a denial of service (bsc#1154448 XSA-296).

CVE-2019-18421: Fixed a privilege escalation through malicious PV guest administrators (bsc#1154458 XSA-299).

CVE-2019-18424: Fixed a privilege escalation through DMA to physical devices by untrusted domains (bsc#1154461 XSA-302).

CVE-2019-18425: Fixed a privilege escalation from 32-bit PV guest used mode (bsc#1154456 XSA-298).

CVE-2019-19577: Fixed an issue where a malicious guest administrator could have caused Xen to access data structures while they are being modified leading to a crash (bsc#1158007 XSA-311).

CVE-2019-19578: Fixed an issue where a malicious or buggy PV guest could have caused hypervisor crash resulting in denial of service affecting the entire host (bsc#1158005 XSA-309).

CVE-2019-19579: Fixed a privilege escalation where an untrusted domain with access to a physical device can DMA into host memory (bsc#1157888 XSA-306).

CVE-2019-19580: Fixed a privilege escalation where a malicious PV guest administrator could have been able to escalate their privilege to that of the host (bsc#1158006 XSA-310).

CVE-2019-19581: Fixed a potential out of bounds on 32-bit Arm (bsc#1158003 XSA-307).

CVE-2019-19583: Fixed improper checks which could have allowed HVM/PVH guest userspace code to crash the guest, leading to a guest denial of service (bsc#1158004 XSA-308).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, guest-to-host privilege escalation or information leaks.

In addition this update provides mitigations for the 'TSX Asynchronous Abort'speculative side channel attack. For additional information please refer to https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-15890: Fixed a use-after-free in SLiRP networking implementation of QEMU emulator which could have led to Denial of Service (bsc#1149813).

CVE-2019-12068: Fixed an issue in lsi which could lead to an infinite loop and denial of service (bsc#1146874).

CVE-2019-14378: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in SLiRp networking implementation of QEMU emulator which could have led to execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process (bsc#1143797).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-15890: Fixed a use-after-free in SLiRP networking implementation of QEMU emulator which could have led to Denial of Service (bsc#1149813).

CVE-2019-12068: Fixed an issue in lsi which could lead to an infinite loop and denial of service (bsc#1146874).

CVE-2019-14378: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in SLiRp networking implementation of QEMU emulator which could have led to execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process (bsc#1143797).

Other issue fixed: Fixed an issue where libxenlight could not restore domain vsa6535522 on live migration (bsc#1133818).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for xen to version 4.11.2 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-15890: Fixed a use-after-free in SLiRP networking implementation of QEMU emulator which could have led to Denial of Service (bsc#1149813).

CVE-2019-12068: Fixed an issue in lsi which could lead to an infinite loop and denial of service (bsc#1146874).

CVE-2019-14378: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in SLiRp networking implementation of QEMU emulator which could have led to execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process (bsc#1143797).

Other issues fixed: Fixed an HPS bug which did not allow to install Windows Server 2016 with 2 CPUs setting or above (bsc#1137717).

Fixed a segmentation fault in Libvrtd during live migration to a VM (bsc#1145774).

Fixed an issue where libxenlight could not create new domain (bsc#1131811).

Fixed an issue where attached pci devices were lost after reboot (bsc#1129642).

Fixed an issue where Xen could not pre-allocate 1 shadow page (bsc#1145240).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. Only x86 systems with the fsgsbase CPU feature are affected.

Note that Nessus has checked the changeset versions based on the xen.git change log. Nessus did not check guest hardware configurations or if patches were applied manually to the source code before a recompile and reinstall.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
133763	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2020:0388-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
132875	Debian DSA-4602-1 : xen - security update (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
130343	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:2783-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
130253	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:2769-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
130197	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:2753-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
122876	Xen Project fsgsbase CPU Feature Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (XSA-293)	Nessus	Misc.	medium

CVE-2019-17347

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