An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because a guest can manipulate its virtualised %cr4 in a way that is incompatible with Linux (and possibly other guest kernels).

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service
    or gain privileges because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers (PCID) and TLB
    flushes. (CVE-2019-17346)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or
    gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled. (CVE-2019-17340)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service
    or gain privileges by leveraging a page-writability race condition during addition of a passed-through PCI
    device. (CVE-2019-17341)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service
    or gain privileges by leveraging incorrect use of the HVM physmap concept for PV domains. (CVE-2019-17343)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of
    service because mishandling of failed IOMMU operations causes a bug check during the cleanup of a crashed
    guest. (CVE-2019-17345)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service     or gain privileges because a guest can manipulate its virtualised %cr4 in a way that is incompatible with     Linux (and possibly other guest kernels). (CVE-2019-17347)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2019:14199-1 advisory.

  - The ahci_commit_buf function in ide/ahci.c in QEMU allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL     dereference) when the command header 'ad->cur_cmd' is null. (CVE-2019-12067)

  - In QEMU 1:4.1-1, 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6, 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u8, 1:3.1+dfsg-8~deb10u1, 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u2,     and 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u12 (fixed), when executing script in lsi_execute_script(), the LSI scsi adapter     emulator advances 's->dsp' index to read next opcode. This can lead to an infinite loop if the next opcode     is empty. Move the existing loop exit after 10k iterations so that it covers no-op opcodes as well.
    (CVE-2019-12068)

  - interface_release_resource in hw/display/qxl.c in QEMU 3.1.x through 4.0.0 has a NULL pointer dereference.
    (CVE-2019-12155)

  - ip_reass in ip_input.c in libslirp 4.0.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow via a large packet because it     mishandles a case involving the first fragment. (CVE-2019-14378)

  - libslirp 4.0.0, as used in QEMU 4.1.0, has a use-after-free in ip_reass in ip_input.c. (CVE-2019-15890)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or     gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled. (CVE-2019-17340)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service     or gain privileges by leveraging a page-writability race condition during addition of a passed-through PCI     device. (CVE-2019-17341)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service     or gain privileges by leveraging a race condition that arose when XENMEM_exchange was introduced.
    (CVE-2019-17342)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service     or gain privileges by leveraging incorrect use of the HVM physmap concept for PV domains. (CVE-2019-17343)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service     by leveraging a long-running operation that exists to support restartability of PTE updates.
    (CVE-2019-17344)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service     or gain privileges because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers (PCID) and TLB     flushes. (CVE-2019-17346)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service     or gain privileges because a guest can manipulate its virtualised %cr4 in a way that is incompatible with     Linux (and possibly other guest kernels). (CVE-2019-17347)

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service     because of an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers (PCID) and shadow-pagetable switching.
    (CVE-2019-17348)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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
435815	Alpine: xen: security update to 4.11.2-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
435815	Alpine: xen: security update to 4.11.2-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
257466	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-17347	Nessus	Misc.	high
407748	Alpine: xen: security update to 4.11.2-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
407748	Alpine: xen: security update to 4.11.2-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
150593	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:14199-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
133763	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2020:0388-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
132875	Debian DSA-4602-1 : xen - security update (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
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.	high

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