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GLSA-201703-07 : Xen: Privilege Escalation

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99014

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201703-07 (Xen: Privilege Escalation)

 In CIRRUS_BLTMODE_MEMSYSSRC mode the bitblit copy routine cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo fails to check wethehr the specified memory region is safe.
 Impact :

 A local attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of Xen (QEMU) process on the host, gain privileges on the host system, or cause a Denial of Service condition.
 Workaround :

 Running guests in Paravirtualization (PV) mode, or running guests in Hardware-assisted virtualizion (HVM) utilizing stub domains mitigate the issue.
 Running HVM guests with the device model in a stubdomain will mitigate the issue.
 Changing the video card emulation to stdvga (stdvga=1, vga=”stdvga”, in the xl domain configuration) will avoid the vulnerability.

Solution

All Xen Tools users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.7.1-r8'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201703-07

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99014

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201703-07.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Published: 3/28/2017

Updated: 12/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2620

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 8.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:xen-tools

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2620

GLSA: 201703-07

IAVB: 2017-B-0024-S