Xen Hypervisor Translated Guest Self-linear Shadow Mapping Handling Guest-to-Host Privilege Escalation (XSA-243)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103978

Synopsis

The remote Xen hypervisor installation is missing a security update.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by an unspecified flaw in mm/shadow/multi.c that is triggered during the handling of self-linear shadow mappings with translated guests. This may allow an attacker on the guest to cause a denial of service or gain elevated privileges on the host.

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.

Solution

Apply the appropriate patch according to the vendor advisory.

See Also

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-243.html

https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=summary

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103978

File Name: xen_server_XSA-243.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/19/2017

Updated: 6/3/2021

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15595

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:xen:xen

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, installed_sw/Xen Hypervisor

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15588, CVE-2017-15589, CVE-2017-15590, CVE-2017-15591, CVE-2017-15592, CVE-2017-15593, CVE-2017-15594, CVE-2017-15595, CVE-2017-15596

BID: 101490, 101496, 101500

IAVB: 2017-B-0142-S