Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (Xen infinite loop and physical CPU consumption) by setting a VCPU with an "inappropriate deadline."

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201604-03 (Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or       obtain sensitive information.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2015-0068 for details.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 3 LTSS Xen hypervisor and toolset have been updated to fix various security issues :

The following security issues have been addressed :

XSA-20: CVE-2012-4535: Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (Xen infinite loop and physical CPU consumption) by setting a VCPU with an 'inappropriate deadline'. (bnc#786516)

XSA-22: CVE-2012-4537: Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly synchronize the p2m and m2p tables when the set_p2m_entry function fails, which allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and assertion failure), aka 'Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability'. (bnc#786517)

XSA-25: CVE-2012-4544: The PV domain builder in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not validate the size of the kernel or ramdisk (1) before or (2) after decompression, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (domain 0 memory consumption) via a crafted (a) kernel or (b) ramdisk.
(bnc#787163)

XSA-29: CVE-2012-5513: The XENMEM_exchange handler in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly check the memory address, which allows local PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that overwrite memory in the hypervisor reserved range. (bnc#789951)

XSA-31: CVE-2012-5515: The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value. (bnc#789950)

XSA-44: CVE-2013-1917: Xen 3.1 through 4.x, when running 64-bit hosts on Intel CPUs, does not clear the NT flag when using an IRET after a SYSENTER instruction, which allows PV guest users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) by triggering a #GP fault, which is not properly handled by another IRET instruction. (bnc#813673)

XSA-47: CVE-2013-1920: Xen 4.2.x, 4.1.x, and earlier, when the hypervisor is running 'under memory pressure' and the Xen Security Module (XSM) is enabled, uses the wrong ordering of operations when extending the per-domain event channel tracking table, which causes a use-after-free and allows local guest kernels to inject arbitrary events and gain privileges via unspecified vectors. (bnc#813677)

XSA-55: CVE-2013-2196: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Elf parser (libelf) in Xen 4.2.x and earlier allow local guest administrators with certain permissions to have an unspecified impact via a crafted kernel, related to 'other problems' that are not CVE-2013-2194 or CVE-2013-2195. (bnc#823011)

XSA-55: CVE-2013-2195: The Elf parser (libelf) in Xen 4.2.x and earlier allow local guest administrators with certain permissions to have an unspecified impact via a crafted kernel, related to 'pointer dereferences' involving unexpected calculations. (bnc#823011)

XSA-55: CVE-2013-2194: Multiple integer overflows in the Elf parser (libelf) in Xen 4.2.x and earlier allow local guest administrators with certain permissions to have an unspecified impact via a crafted kernel. (bnc#823011)

XSA-63: CVE-2013-4355: Xen 4.3.x and earlier does not properly handle certain errors, which allows local HVM guests to obtain hypervisor stack memory via a (1) port or (2) memory mapped I/O write or (3) other unspecified operations related to addresses without associated memory.
(bnc#840592)

XSA-67: CVE-2013-4368: The outs instruction emulation in Xen 3.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and earlier, when using FS: or GS:
segment override, uses an uninitialized variable as a segment base, which allows local 64-bit PV guests to obtain sensitive information (hypervisor stack content) via unspecified vectors related to stale data in a segment register. (bnc#842511)

XSA-73: CVE-2013-4494: Xen before 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x does not take the page_alloc_lock and grant_table.lock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators with access to multiple vcpus to cause a denial of service (host deadlock) via unspecified vectors. (bnc#848657)

XSA-76: CVE-2013-4554: Xen 3.0.3 through 4.1.x (possibly 4.1.6.1), 4.2.x (possibly 4.2.3), and 4.3.x (possibly 4.3.1) does not properly prevent access to hypercalls, which allows local guest users to gain privileges via a crafted application running in ring 1 or 2. (bnc#849668)

XSA-82: CVE-2013-6885: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application, aka the errata 793 issue. (bnc#853049)

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.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 LTSS Xen hypervisor and toolset have been updated to fix various security issues and some bugs.

The following security issues have been addressed :

XSA-84: CVE-2014-1894: Xen 3.2 (and presumably earlier) exhibit both problems with the overflow issue being present for more than just the suboperations listed above. (bnc#860163)

XSA-84: CVE-2014-1892 CVE-2014-1893: Xen 3.3 through 4.1, while not affected by the above overflow, have a different overflow issue on FLASK_{GET,SET}BOOL and expose unreasonably large memory allocation to arbitrary guests.
(bnc#860163)

XSA-84: CVE-2014-1891: The FLASK_{GET,SET}BOOL, FLASK_USER and FLASK_CONTEXT_TO_SID suboperations of the flask hypercall are vulnerable to an integer overflow on the input size. The hypercalls attempt to allocate a buffer which is 1 larger than this size and is therefore vulnerable to integer overflow and an attempt to allocate then access a zero byte buffer. (bnc#860163)

XSA-82: CVE-2013-6885: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application, aka the errata 793 issue. (bnc#853049)

XSA-76: CVE-2013-4554: Xen 3.0.3 through 4.1.x (possibly 4.1.6.1), 4.2.x (possibly 4.2.3), and 4.3.x (possibly 4.3.1) does not properly prevent access to hypercalls, which allows local guest users to gain privileges via a crafted application running in ring 1 or 2. (bnc#849668)

XSA-74: CVE-2013-4553: The XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist hypercall in Xen 3.4.x through 4.3.x (possibly 4.3.1) does not always obtain the page_alloc_lock and mm_rwlock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host deadlock). (bnc#849667)

XSA-73: CVE-2013-4494: Xen before 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x does not take the page_alloc_lock and grant_table.lock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators with access to multiple vcpus to cause a denial of service (host deadlock) via unspecified vectors. (bnc#848657)

XSA-67: CVE-2013-4368: The outs instruction emulation in Xen 3.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and earlier, when using FS: or GS:
segment override, uses an uninitialized variable as a segment base, which allows local 64-bit PV guests to obtain sensitive information (hypervisor stack content) via unspecified vectors related to stale data in a segment register. (bnc#842511)

XSA-66: CVE-2013-4361: The fbld instruction emulation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x does not use the correct variable for the source effective address, which allows local HVM guests to obtain hypervisor stack information by reading the values used by the instruction. (bnc#841766)

XSA-63: CVE-2013-4355: Xen 4.3.x and earlier does not properly handle certain errors, which allows local HVM guests to obtain hypervisor stack memory via a (1) port or (2) memory mapped I/O write or (3) other unspecified operations related to addresses without associated memory.
(bnc#840592)

XSA-62: CVE-2013-1442: Xen 4.0 through 4.3.x, when using AVX or LWP capable CPUs, does not properly clear previous data from registers when using an XSAVE or XRSTOR to extend the state components of a saved or restored vCPU after touching other restored extended registers, which allows local guest OSes to obtain sensitive information by reading the registers. (bnc#839596)

XSA-61: CVE-2013-4329: The xenlight library (libxl) in Xen 4.0.x through 4.2.x, when IOMMU is disabled, provides access to a busmastering-capable PCI passthrough device before the IOMMU setup is complete, which allows local HVM guest domains to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a DMA instruction. (bnc#839618)

XSA-60: CVE-2013-2212: The vmx_set_uc_mode function in Xen 3.3 through 4.3, when disabling chaches, allows local HVM guests with access to memory mapped I/O regions to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and possibly hypervisor or guest kernel panic) via a crafted GFN range. (bnc#831120)

XSA-58: CVE-2013-1918: Certain page table manipulation operations in Xen 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and earlier are not preemptible, which allows local PV kernels to cause a denial of service via vectors related to 'deep page table traversal.' (bnc#826882)

XSA-58: CVE-2013-1432: Xen 4.1.x and 4.2.x, when the XSA-45 patch is in place, does not properly maintain references on pages stored for deferred cleanup, which allows local PV guest kernels to cause a denial of service (premature page free and hypervisor crash) or possible gain privileges via unspecified vectors. (bnc#826882)

XSA-57: CVE-2013-2211: The libxenlight (libxl) toolstack library in Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x uses weak permissions for xenstore keys for paravirtualised and emulated serial console devices, which allows local guest administrators to modify the xenstore value via unspecified vectors.
(bnc#823608)

XSA-56: CVE-2013-2072: Buffer overflow in the Python bindings for the xc_vcpu_setaffinity call in Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x allows local administrators with permissions to configure VCPU affinity to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and xend toolstack crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted cpumap. (bnc#819416)

XSA-55: CVE-2013-2196: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Elf parser (libelf) in Xen 4.2.x and earlier allow local guest administrators with certain permissions to have an unspecified impact via a crafted kernel, related to 'other problems' that are not CVE-2013-2194 or CVE-2013-2195. (bnc#823011)

XSA-55: CVE-2013-2195: The Elf parser (libelf) in Xen 4.2.x and earlier allow local guest administrators with certain permissions to have an unspecified impact via a crafted kernel, related to 'pointer dereferences' involving unexpected calculations. (bnc#823011)

XSA-55: CVE-2013-2194: Multiple integer overflows in the Elf parser (libelf) in Xen 4.2.x and earlier allow local guest administrators with certain permissions to have an unspecified impact via a crafted kernel. (bnc#823011)

XSA-53: CVE-2013-2077: Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x does not properly restrict the contents of a XRSTOR, which allows local PV guest users to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
(bnc#820919)

XSA-52: CVE-2013-2076: Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x, when running on AMD64 processors, only save/restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE/FXRSTOR when an exception is pending, which allows one domain to determine portions of the state of floating point instructions of other domains, which can be leveraged to obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-1056. NOTE: this is the documented behavior of AMD64 processors, but it is inconsistent with Intel processors in a security-relevant fashion that was not addressed by the kernels. (bnc#820917)

XSA-50: CVE-2013-1964: Xen 4.0.x and 4.1.x incorrectly releases a grant reference when releasing a non-v1, non-transitive grant, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash), obtain sensitive information, or possible have other impacts via unspecified vectors. (bnc#816156)

XSA-49: CVE-2013-1952: Xen 4.x, when using Intel VT-d for a bus mastering capable PCI device, does not properly check the source when accessing a bridge device's interrupt remapping table entries for MSI interrupts, which allows local guest domains to cause a denial of service (interrupt injection) via unspecified vectors. (bnc#816163)

XSA-47: CVE-2013-1920: Xen 4.2.x, 4.1.x, and earlier, when the hypervisor is running 'under memory pressure' and the Xen Security Module (XSM) is enabled, uses the wrong ordering of operations when extending the per-domain event channel tracking table, which causes a use-after-free and allows local guest kernels to inject arbitrary events and gain privileges via unspecified vectors. (bnc#813677)

XSA-46: CVE-2013-1919: Xen 4.2.x and 4.1.x does not properly restrict access to IRQs, which allows local stub domain clients to gain access to IRQs and cause a denial of service via vectors related to 'passed-through IRQs or PCI devices.' (bnc#813675)

XSA-45: CVE-2013-1918: Certain page table manipulation operations in Xen 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and earlier are not preemptible, which allows local PV kernels to cause a denial of service via vectors related to 'deep page table traversal.' (bnc#816159)

XSA-44: CVE-2013-1917: Xen 3.1 through 4.x, when running 64-bit hosts on Intel CPUs, does not clear the NT flag when using an IRET after a SYSENTER instruction, which allows PV guest users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) by triggering a #GP fault, which is not properly handled by another IRET instruction. (bnc#813673)

XSA-41: CVE-2012-6075: Buffer overflow in the e1000_receive function in the e1000 device driver (hw/e1000.c) in QEMU 1.3.0-rc2 and other versions, when the SBP and LPE flags are disabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) and possibly execute arbitrary guest code via a large packet. (bnc#797523)

XSA-37: CVE-2013-0154: The get_page_type function in xen/arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.2, when debugging is enabled, allows local PV or HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors related to a hypercall. (bnc#797031)

XSA-36: CVE-2013-0153: The AMD IOMMU support in Xen 4.2.x, 4.1.x, 3.3, and other versions, when using AMD-Vi for PCI passthrough, uses the same interrupt remapping table for the host and all guests, which allows guests to cause a denial of service by injecting an interrupt into other guests.
(bnc#800275)

XSA-33: CVE-2012-5634: Xen 4.2.x, 4.1.x, and 4.0, when using Intel VT-d for PCI passthrough, does not properly configure VT-d when supporting a device that is behind a legacy PCI Bridge, which allows local guests to cause a denial of service to other guests by injecting an interrupt.
(bnc#794316)

XSA-31: CVE-2012-5515: The (1) XENMEM_decrease_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, and (3) XENMEM_exchange hypercalls in Xen 4.2 and earlier allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (long loop and hang) via a crafted extent_order value. (bnc#789950)

XSA-30: CVE-2012-5514: The guest_physmap_mark_populate_on_demand function in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly unlock the subject GFNs when checking if they are in use, which allows local guest HVM administrators to cause a denial of service (hang) via unspecified vectors. (bnc#789948)

XSA-29: CVE-2012-5513: The XENMEM_exchange handler in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not properly check the memory address, which allows local PV guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that overwrite memory in the hypervisor reserved range. (bnc#789951)

XSA-27: CVE-2012-6333: Multiple HVM control operations in Xen 3.4 through 4.2 allow local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (physical CPU consumption) via a large input. (bnc#789944)

XSA-27: CVE-2012-5511: Stack-based buffer overflow in the dirty video RAM tracking functionality in Xen 3.4 through 4.1 allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large bitmap image.
(bnc#789944)

XSA-26: CVE-2012-5510: Xen 4.x, when downgrading the grant table version, does not properly remove the status page from the tracking list when freeing the page, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors. (bnc#789945)

XSA-25: CVE-2012-4544: The PV domain builder in Xen 4.2 and earlier does not validate the size of the kernel or ramdisk (1) before or (2) after decompression, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (domain 0 memory consumption) via a crafted (a) kernel or (b) ramdisk.
(bnc#787163)

XSA-24: CVE-2012-4539: Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang or crash) via invalid arguments to GNTTABOP_get_status_frames, aka 'Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability.' (bnc#786520)

XSA-23: CVE-2012-4538: The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 does not properly check the pagetable state when running on shadow pagetables, which allows a local HVM guest OS to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors. (bnc#786519)

XSA-22: CVE-2012-4537: Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly synchronize the p2m and m2p tables when the set_p2m_entry function fails, which allows local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and assertion failure), aka 'Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability.' (bnc#786517)

XSA-20: CVE-2012-4535: Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (Xen infinite loop and physical CPU consumption) by setting a VCPU with an 'inappropriate deadline.' (bnc#786516)

XSA-19: CVE-2012-4411: The graphical console in Xen 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 allows local OS guest administrators to obtain sensitive host resource information via the qemu monitor.
NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0998.
(bnc#779212)

XSA-15: CVE-2012-3497: (1) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_WEIGHT, (2) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_CAP, (3) TMEMC_SAVE_GET_CLIENT_FLAGS and (4) TMEMC_SAVE_END in the Transcendent Memory (TMEM) in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 allow local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption and host crash) or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a NULL client id. (bnc#777890)

Also the following non-security bugs have been fixed :

  - xen hot plug attach/detach fails modified     blktap-pv-cdrom.patch. (bnc#805094)

  - guest 'disappears' after live migration Updated     block-dmmd script. (bnc#777628)

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.

XEN received various security and bugfixes :

  - CVE-2012-4535: xen: Timer overflow DoS vulnerability     (XSA-20)

  - CVE-2012-4537: xen: Memory mapping failure DoS     vulnerability (XSA-22)

The following additional bugs have been fixed :

  - bnc#784087 - L3: Xen BUG at io_apic.c:129     26102-x86-IOAPIC-legacy-not-first.patch

  - Upstream patches from Jan     25927-x86-domctl-ioport-mapping-range.patch     25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch     26061-x86-oprof-counter-range.patch     25431-x86-EDD-MBR-sig-check.patch     25480-x86_64-sysret-canonical.patch     25481-x86_64-AMD-erratum-121.patch     25485-x86_64-canonical-checks.patch     25587-param-parse-limit.patch     25589-pygrub-size-limits.patch     25744-hypercall-return-long.patch     25765-x86_64-allow-unsafe-adjust.patch     25773-x86-honor-no-real-mode.patch     25786-x86-prefer-multiboot-meminfo-over-e801.patch     25808-domain_create-return-value.patch     25814-x86_64-set-debugreg-guest.patch     24742-gnttab-misc.patch 25098-x86-emul-lock-UD.patch     25200-x86_64-trap-bounce-flags.patch     25271-x86_64-IST-index.patch bnc#651093 - win2k8 guests     are unable to restore after saving the vms state     ept-novell-x64.patch 23800-x86_64-guest-addr-range.patch     24168-x86-vioapic-clear-remote_irr.patch     24453-x86-vIRQ-IRR-TMR-race.patch     24456-x86-emul-lea.patch

    bnc#713555 - Unable to install RHEL 6.1 x86 as a     paravirtualized guest OS on SLES 10 SP4 x86     vm-install-0.2.19.tar.bz2

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.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - libxc: builder: limit maximum size of kernel/ramdisk.
    Allowing user supplied kernels of arbitrary sizes,     especially during decompression, can swallow up dom0     memory leading to either virtual address space     exhaustion in the builder process or allocation     failures/OOM killing of both toolstack and unrelated     processes. We disable these checks when building in a     stub domain for pvgrub since this uses the guest's own     memory and is isolated. Decompression of gzip compressed     kernels and ramdisks has been safe since     14954:58205257517d (Xen 3.1.0 onwards). This is XSA-25 /     CVE-2012-4544. Also make explicit checks for buffer     overflows in various decompression routines. These were     already ruled out due to other properties of the code     but check them as a belt-and-braces measure.

    [ Includes 25589:60f09d1ab1fe for CVE-2012-2625]     (CVE-2012-4544)

  - compat/gnttab: Prevent infinite loop in compat code c/s     20281:95ea2052b41b, which introduces Grant Table version     2 hypercalls introduces a vulnerability whereby the     compat hypercall handler can fall into an infinite loop.
    If the watchdog is enabled, Xen will die after the     timeout. This is a security problem, XSA-24 /     CVE-2012-4539. (CVE-2012-4539)

  - xen/mm/shadow: check toplevel pagetables are present     before unhooking them. If the guest has not fully     populated its top-level PAE entries when it calls     HVMOP_pagetable_dying, the shadow code could try to     unhook entries from MFN 0. Add a check to avoid that     case. This issue was introduced by c/s     21239:b9d2db109cf5. This is a security problem, XSA-23 /     CVE-2012-4538. (CVE-2012-4538)

  - x86/physmap: Prevent incorrect updates of m2p mappings     In certain conditions, such as low memory, set_p2m_entry     can fail. Currently, the p2m and m2p tables will get out     of sync because we still update the m2p table after the     p2m update has failed. If that happens, subsequent     guest-invoked memory operations can cause BUGs and     ASSERTs to kill Xen. This is fixed by only updating the     m2p table iff the p2m was successfully updated. This is     a security problem, XSA-22 / CVE-2012-4537.
    (CVE-2012-4537)

  - x86/physdev: Range check pirq parameter from guests     Otherwise Xen will read beyond either end of the struct     domain.arch.pirq_emuirq array, usually resulting in a     fatal page fault. This vulnerability was introduced by     c/s 23241:d21100f1d00e, which adds a call to     domain_pirq_to_emuirq which uses the guest provided pirq     value before range checking it, and was fixed by c/s     23573:584c2e5e03d9 which changed the behaviour of the     domain_pirq_to_emuirq macro to use radix trees instead     of a flat array. This is XSA-21 / CVE-2012-4536.
    (CVE-2012-4536)

  - VCPU/timers: Prevent overflow in calculations, leading     to DoS vulnerability The timer action for a vcpu     periodic timer is to calculate the next expiry time, and     to reinsert itself into the timer queue. If the deadline     ends up in the past, Xen never leaves __do_softirq. The     affected PCPU will stay in an infinite loop until Xen is     killed by the watchdog (if enabled). This is a security     problem, XSA-20 / CVE-2012-4535. (CVE-2012-4535)

  - Correct RTC time offset update error for HVM guest     changeset 24947:b198ada9689d

  - always release vm running lock on VM shutdown Before     this patch, when xend restarted, the VM running lock     will not be released on shutdown, so the VM could never     start again. Talked with Junjie, we recommend always     releasing the lock on VM shutdown. So even when xend     restarted, there should be no stale lock leaving there.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - compat/gnttab: Prevent infinite loop in compat code c/s     20281:95ea2052b41b, which introduces Grant Table version     2 hypercalls introduces a vulnerability whereby the     compat hypercall handler can fall into an infinite loop.
    If the watchdog is enabled, Xen will die after the     timeout. This is a security problem, XSA-24 /     CVE-2012-4539. (CVE-2012-4539)

  - xen/mm/shadow: check toplevel pagetables are present     before unhooking them. If the guest has not fully     populated its top-level PAE entries when it calls     HVMOP_pagetable_dying, the shadow code could try to     unhook entries from MFN 0. Add a check to avoid that     case. This issue was introduced by c/s     21239:b9d2db109cf5. This is a security problem, XSA-23 /     CVE-2012-4538. (CVE-2012-4538)

  - x86/physmap: Prevent incorrect updates of m2p mappings     In certain conditions, such as low memory, set_p2m_entry     can fail. Currently, the p2m and m2p tables will get out     of sync because we still update the m2p table after the     p2m update has failed. If that happens, subsequent     guest-invoked memory operations can cause BUGs and     ASSERTs to kill Xen. This is fixed by only updating the     m2p table iff the p2m was successfully updated. This is     a security problem, XSA-22 / CVE-2012-4537.
    (CVE-2012-4537)

  - VCPU/timers: Prevent overflow in calculations, leading     to DoS vulnerability The timer action for a vcpu     periodic timer is to calculate the next expiry time, and     to reinsert itself into the timer queue. If the deadline     ends up in the past, Xen never leaves __do_softirq. The     affected PCPU will stay in an infinite loop until Xen is     killed by the watchdog (if enabled). This is a security     problem, XSA-20 / CVE-2012-4535. (CVE-2012-4535)

  - always release vm running lock on VM shutdown Before     this patch, when xend restarted, the VM running lock     will not be released on shutdown, so the VM could never     start again. Talked with Junjie, we recommend always     releasing the lock on VM shutdown. So even when xend     restarted, there should be no stale lock leaving there.

  - Xen Security Advisory CVE-2012-4411 / XSA-19 version 2     guest administrator can access qemu monitor console     Disable qemu monitor by default. The qemu monitor is an     overly powerful feature which must be protected from     untrusted (guest) administrators. (CVE-2012-4411)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - XSA-20: VCPU/timers: Prevent overflow in calculations     [orabug 15852489] (CVE-2012-4535)

  - XSA-22: Prevent incorrect updates of m2p mappings     [orabug 15852490] (CVE-2012-4537)

  - Increase network hotplug script timeout to 200 (Chuang     Cao) [Orabug 14378502]

This update of XEN fixes various denial of service bugs.

  - bnc#789945 - CVE-2012-5510: xen: Grant table version     switch list corruption vulnerability (XSA-26)

  - bnc#789944 - CVE-2012-5511: xen: Several HVM operations     do not validate the range of their inputs (XSA-27)

  - bnc#789940 - CVE-2012-5512: xen: HVMOP_get_mem_access     crash / HVMOP_set_mem_access information leak (XSA-28)

  - bnc#789951 - CVE-2012-5513: xen: XENMEM_exchange may     overwrite hypervisor memory (XSA-29)

  - bnc#789948 - CVE-2012-5514: xen: Missing unlock in     guest_physmap_mark_populate_on_demand() (XSA-30)

  - bnc#789950 - CVE-2012-5515: xen: Several memory     hypercall operations allow invalid extent order values     (XSA-31)

  - bnc#789988 - FATAL PAGE FAULT in hypervisor     (arch_do_domctl)     25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch

  - Upstream patches from Jan     26132-tmem-save-NULL-check.patch     26134-x86-shadow-invlpg-check.patch     26148-vcpu-timer-overflow.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4535-xsa20.patch)     26149-x86-p2m-physmap-error-path.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4537-xsa22.patch)     26150-x86-shadow-unhook-toplevel-check.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4538-xsa23.patch)     26151-gnttab-compat-get-status-frames.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4539-xsa24.patch)

  - bnc#777628 - guest 'disappears' after live migration     Updated block-dmmd script

  - Fix exception in balloon.py and osdep.py     xen-max-free-mem.diff

  - bnc#792476 - efi files missing in latest XEN update     Revert c/s 25751 EFI Makefile changes in     23614-x86_64-EFI-boot.patch

XEN was updated to fix various denial of service issues.

  - bnc#789945 - CVE-2012-5510: xen: Grant table version     switch list corruption vulnerability (XSA-26)

  - bnc#789944 - CVE-2012-5511: xen: Several HVM operations     do not validate the range of their inputs (XSA-27)

  - bnc#789940 - CVE-2012-5512: xen: HVMOP_get_mem_access     crash / HVMOP_set_mem_access information leak (XSA-28)

  - bnc#789951 - CVE-2012-5513: xen: XENMEM_exchange may     overwrite hypervisor memory (XSA-29)

  - bnc#789948 - CVE-2012-5514: xen: Missing unlock in     guest_physmap_mark_populate_on_demand() (XSA-30)

  - bnc#789950 - CVE-2012-5515: xen: Several memory     hypercall operations allow invalid extent order values     (XSA-31)

  - bnc#789988 - FATAL PAGE FAULT in hypervisor     (arch_do_domctl)

  - Upstream patches from Jan     26132-tmem-save-NULL-check.patch     26134-x86-shadow-invlpg-check.patch     26148-vcpu-timer-overflow.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4535-xsa20.patch)     26149-x86-p2m-physmap-error-path.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4537-xsa22.patch)     26150-x86-shadow-unhook-toplevel-check.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4538-xsa23.patch)

  - bnc#777628 - guest 'disappears' after live migration     Updated block-dmmd script

  - Fix exception in balloon.py and osdep.py     xen-max-free-mem.diff

  - bnc#792476 - efi files missing in latest XEN update     Revert c/s 25751 EFI Makefile changes in     23614-x86_64-EFI-boot.patch

This security update of XEN fixes various bugs and security issues.

  - Upstream patch 26088-xend-xml-filesize-check.patch

  - bnc#787163 - CVE-2012-4544: xen: Domain builder Out-of-     memory due to malicious kernel/ramdisk (XSA 25)     CVE-2012-4544-xsa25.patch

  - bnc#779212 - CVE-2012-4411: XEN / qemu: guest     administrator can access qemu monitor console (XSA-19)     CVE-2012-4411-xsa19.patch

  - bnc#786516 - CVE-2012-4535: xen: Timer overflow DoS     vulnerability CVE-2012-4535-xsa20.patch

  - bnc#786518 - CVE-2012-4536: xen: pirq range check DoS     vulnerability CVE-2012-4536-xsa21.patch

  - bnc#786517 - CVE-2012-4537: xen: Memory mapping failure     DoS vulnerability CVE-2012-4537-xsa22.patch

  - bnc#786519 - CVE-2012-4538: xen: Unhooking empty PAE     entries DoS vulnerability CVE-2012-4538-xsa23.patch

  - bnc#786520 - CVE-2012-4539: xen: Grant table hypercall     infinite loop DoS vulnerability     CVE-2012-4539-xsa24.patch

  - bnc#784087 - L3: Xen BUG at io_apic.c:129     26102-x86-IOAPIC-legacy-not-first.patch

  - Upstream patches from Jan     26054-x86-AMD-perf-ctr-init.patch     26055-x86-oprof-hvm-mode.patch     26056-page-alloc-flush-filter.patch     26061-x86-oprof-counter-range.patch     26062-ACPI-ERST-move-data.patch     26063-x86-HPET-affinity-lock.patch     26093-HVM-PoD-grant-mem-type.patch

  - Upstream patches from Jan     25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch     25952-x86-MMIO-remap-permissions.patch

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  - use BuildRequires: gcc46 only in sles11sp2 or 12.1 to     fix build in 11.4

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  - Upstream patches from Jan     25808-domain_create-return-value.patch     25814-x86_64-set-debugreg-guest.patch     25815-x86-PoD-no-bug-in-non-translated.patch     25816-x86-hvm-map-pirq-range-check.patch     25833-32on64-bogus-pt_base-adjust.patch     25834-x86-S3-MSI-resume.patch     25835-adjust-rcu-lock-domain.patch     25836-VT-d-S3-MSI-resume.patch 25850-tmem-xsa-15-1.patch     25851-tmem-xsa-15-2.patch 25852-tmem-xsa-15-3.patch     25853-tmem-xsa-15-4.patch 25854-tmem-xsa-15-5.patch     25855-tmem-xsa-15-6.patch 25856-tmem-xsa-15-7.patch     25857-tmem-xsa-15-8.patch 25858-tmem-xsa-15-9.patch     25859-tmem-missing-break.patch 25860-tmem-cleanup.patch     25883-pt-MSI-cleanup.patch     25927-x86-domctl-ioport-mapping-range.patch     25929-tmem-restore-pool-version.patch

  - bnc#778105 - first XEN-PV VM fails to spawn xend:
    Increase wait time for disk to appear in host bootloader     Modified existing xen-domUloader.diff

  - Upstream patches from Jan     25752-ACPI-pm-op-valid-cpu.patch     25754-x86-PoD-early-access.patch     25755-x86-PoD-types.patch     25756-x86-MMIO-max-mapped-pfn.patch     25757-x86-EPT-PoD-1Gb-assert.patch     25764-x86-unknown-cpu-no-sysenter.patch     25765-x86_64-allow-unsafe-adjust.patch     25771-grant-copy-status-paged-out.patch     25773-x86-honor-no-real-mode.patch     25786-x86-prefer-multiboot-meminfo-over-e801.patch

  - bnc#777890 - CVE-2012-3497: xen: multiple TMEM hypercall     vulnerabilities (XSA-15)     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-1.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-2.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-3.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-4.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-5.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-6.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-7.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-8.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-9.patch     tmem-missing-break.patch

This security update of XEN fixes various bugs and security issues.

  - Upstream patch 26088-xend-xml-filesize-check.patch

  - bnc#787163 - CVE-2012-4544: xen: Domain builder Out-of-     memory due to malicious kernel/ramdisk (XSA 25)     CVE-2012-4544-xsa25.patch

  - bnc#779212 - CVE-2012-4411: XEN / qemu: guest     administrator can access qemu monitor console (XSA-19)     CVE-2012-4411-xsa19.patch

  - bnc#786516 - CVE-2012-4535: xen: Timer overflow DoS     vulnerability CVE-2012-4535-xsa20.patch

  - bnc#786518 - CVE-2012-4536: xen: pirq range check DoS     vulnerability CVE-2012-4536-xsa21.patch

  - bnc#786517 - CVE-2012-4537: xen: Memory mapping failure     DoS vulnerability CVE-2012-4537-xsa22.patch

  - bnc#786519 - CVE-2012-4538: xen: Unhooking empty PAE     entries DoS vulnerability CVE-2012-4538-xsa23.patch

  - bnc#786520 - CVE-2012-4539: xen: Grant table hypercall     infinite loop DoS vulnerability     CVE-2012-4539-xsa24.patch

  - bnc#784087 - L3: Xen BUG at io_apic.c:129     26102-x86-IOAPIC-legacy-not-first.patch

  - Upstream patches from Jan     26054-x86-AMD-perf-ctr-init.patch     26055-x86-oprof-hvm-mode.patch     26056-page-alloc-flush-filter.patch     26061-x86-oprof-counter-range.patch     26062-ACPI-ERST-move-data.patch     26063-x86-HPET-affinity-lock.patch     26093-HVM-PoD-grant-mem-type.patch

  - Upstream patches from Jan     25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch     25952-x86-MMIO-remap-permissions.patch

  - Upstream patches from Jan     25808-domain_create-return-value.patch     25814-x86_64-set-debugreg-guest.patch     25815-x86-PoD-no-bug-in-non-translated.patch     25816-x86-hvm-map-pirq-range-check.patch     25833-32on64-bogus-pt_base-adjust.patch     25834-x86-S3-MSI-resume.patch     25835-adjust-rcu-lock-domain.patch     25836-VT-d-S3-MSI-resume.patch 25850-tmem-xsa-15-1.patch     25851-tmem-xsa-15-2.patch 25852-tmem-xsa-15-3.patch     25853-tmem-xsa-15-4.patch 25854-tmem-xsa-15-5.patch     25855-tmem-xsa-15-6.patch 25856-tmem-xsa-15-7.patch     25857-tmem-xsa-15-8.patch 25858-tmem-xsa-15-9.patch     25859-tmem-missing-break.patch 25860-tmem-cleanup.patch     25883-pt-MSI-cleanup.patch     25927-x86-domctl-ioport-mapping-range.patch     25929-tmem-restore-pool-version.patch

  - bnc#778105 - first XEN-PV VM fails to spawn xend:
    Increase wait time for disk to appear in host bootloader     Modified existing xen-domUloader.diff

  - Upstream patches from Jan     25752-ACPI-pm-op-valid-cpu.patch     25754-x86-PoD-early-access.patch     25755-x86-PoD-types.patch     25756-x86-MMIO-max-mapped-pfn.patch     25757-x86-EPT-PoD-1Gb-assert.patch     25764-x86-unknown-cpu-no-sysenter.patch     25765-x86_64-allow-unsafe-adjust.patch     25771-grant-copy-status-paged-out.patch     25773-x86-honor-no-real-mode.patch     25786-x86-prefer-multiboot-meminfo-over-e801.patch

  - bnc#777890 - CVE-2012-3497: xen: multiple TMEM hypercall     vulnerabilities (XSA-15)     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-1.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-2.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-3.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-4.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-5.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-6.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-7.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-8.patch     CVE-2012-3497-tmem-xsa-15-9.patch     tmem-missing-break.patch

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201309-24 (Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    Guest domains could possibly gain privileges, execute arbitrary code, or       cause a Denial of Service on the host domain (Dom0). Additionally, guest       domains could gain information about other virtual machines running on       the same host or read arbitrary files on the host.
  Workaround :

    The CVEs listed below do not currently have fixes, but only apply to Xen       setups which have &ldquo;tmem&rdquo; specified on the hypervisor command line.
      TMEM is not currently supported for use in production systems, and       administrators using tmem should disable it.
      Relevant CVEs:
      * CVE-2012-2497
      * CVE-2012-6030
      * CVE-2012-6031
      * CVE-2012-6032
      * CVE-2012-6033
      * CVE-2012-6034
      * CVE-2012-6035
      * CVE-2012-6036

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1540 advisory.

    - [net] rds-ping cause kernel panic (Alexander Gordeev) [822755 822756] {CVE-2012-2372}
    - [xen] add guest address range checks to XENMEM_exchange handlers (Igor Mammedov) [878033 878034]     {CVE-2012-5513}
    - [xen] x86/physmap: Prevent incorrect updates of m2p mappings (Igor Mammedov) [870148 870149]     {CVE-2012-4537}
    - [xen] VCPU/timer: Dos vulnerability prev overflow in calculations (Igor Mammedov) [870150 870151]     {CVE-2012-4535}
    - [fs] ext4: race-cond protect for convert_unwritten_extents_endio (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911]     {CVE-2012-4508}
    - [fs] ext4: serialize fallocate w/ ext4_convert_unwritten_extents (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911]     {CVE-2012-4508}
    - [fs] ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncate (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911]     {CVE-2012-4508}
    - [net] ipv4: add RCU protection to inet->opt (Jiri Pirko) [872113 855302] {CVE-2012-3552}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:1540 :

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, two bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

These packages contain the Linux kernel.

Security fixes :

* A race condition in the way asynchronous I/O and fallocate() interacted when using ext4 could allow a local, unprivileged user to obtain random data from a deleted file. (CVE-2012-4508, Important)

* A flaw in the way the Xen hypervisor implementation range checked guest provided addresses in the XENMEM_exchange hypercall could allow a malicious, para-virtualized guest administrator to crash the hypervisor or, potentially, escalate their privileges, allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-5513, Important)

* A flaw in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2372, Moderate)

* A race condition in the way access to inet->opt ip_options was synchronized in the Linux kernel's TCP/IP protocol suite implementation. Depending on the network facing applications running on the system, a remote attacker could possibly trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service regardless of the applications the system runs. (CVE-2012-3552, Moderate)

* The Xen hypervisor implementation did not properly restrict the period values used to initialize per VCPU periodic timers. A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop on the physical CPU. If the watchdog were enabled, it would detect said loop and panic the host system. (CVE-2012-4535, Moderate)

* A flaw in the way the Xen hypervisor implementation handled set_p2m_entry() error conditions could allow a privileged, fully-virtualized guest user to crash the hypervisor. (CVE-2012-4537, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank Theodore Ts'o for reporting CVE-2012-4508;
the Xen project for reporting CVE-2012-5513, CVE-2012-4535, and CVE-2012-4537; and Hafid Lin for reporting CVE-2012-3552. Upstream acknowledges Dmitry Monakhov as the original reporter of CVE-2012-4508. CVE-2012-2372 was discovered by Li Honggang of Red Hat.

Bug fixes :

* Previously, the interrupt handlers of the qla2xxx driver could clear pending interrupts right after the IRQ lines were attached during system start-up. Consequently, the kernel could miss the interrupt that reported completion of the link initialization, and the qla2xxx driver then failed to detect all attached LUNs. With this update, the qla2xxx driver has been modified to no longer clear interrupt bits after attaching the IRQ lines. The driver now correctly detects all attached LUNs as expected. (BZ#870118)

* The Ethernet channel bonding driver reported the MII (Media Independent Interface) status of the bond interface in 802.3ad mode as being up even though the MII status of all of the slave devices was down. This could pose a problem if the MII status of the bond interface was used to determine if failover should occur. With this update, the agg_device_up() function has been added to the bonding driver, which allows the driver to report the link status of the bond interface correctly, that is, down when all of its slaves are down, in the 802.3ad mode. (BZ#877943)

Enhancements :

* This update backports several changes from the latest upstream version of the bnx2x driver. The most important change, the remote-fault link detection feature, allows the driver to periodically scan the physical link layer for remote faults. If the physical link appears to be up and a fault is detected, the driver indicates that the link is down. When the fault is cleared, the driver indicates that the link is up again. (BZ#870120)

* The INET socket interface has been modified to send a warning message when the ip_options structure is allocated directly by a third-party module using the kmalloc() function. (BZ#874973)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

XEN was updated to fix various bugs and security issues :

The following security issues have been fixed :

  - xen: Domain builder Out-of-memory due to malicious     kernel/ramdisk (XSA 25). (CVE-2012-4544)

  - XEN / qemu: guest administrator can access qemu monitor     console (XSA-19). (CVE-2012-4411)

  - xen: Timer overflow DoS vulnerability (XSA 20).
    (CVE-2012-4535)

  - xen: pirq range check DoS vulnerability (XSA 21).
    (CVE-2012-4536)

  - xen: Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability (XSA 22).
    (CVE-2012-4537)

  - xen: Unhooking empty PAE entries DoS vulnerability (XSA     23). (CVE-2012-4538)

  - xen: Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS     vulnerability (XSA 24). (CVE-2012-4539)

  - xen: multiple TMEM hypercall vulnerabilities (XSA-15)     Also the following bugs have been fixed and upstream     patches have been applied:. (CVE-2012-3497)

  - L3: Xen BUG at io_apic.c:129     26102-x86-IOAPIC-legacy-not-first.patch. (bnc#784087)

  - Upstream patches merged:
    26054-x86-AMD-perf-ctr-init.patch     26055-x86-oprof-hvm-mode.patch     26056-page-alloc-flush-filter.patch     26061-x86-oprof-counter-range.patch     26062-ACPI-ERST-move-data.patch     26063-x86-HPET-affinity-lock.patch     26093-HVM-PoD-grant-mem-type.patch     25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch     25952-x86-MMIO-remap-permissions.patch     25808-domain_create-return-value.patch     25814-x86_64-set-debugreg-guest.patch     25815-x86-PoD-no-bug-in-non-translated.patch     25816-x86-hvm-map-pirq-range-check.patch     25833-32on64-bogus-pt_base-adjust.patch     25834-x86-S3-MSI-resume.patch     25835-adjust-rcu-lock-domain.patch     25836-VT-d-S3-MSI-resume.patch 25850-tmem-xsa-15-1.patch     25851-tmem-xsa-15-2.patch 25852-tmem-xsa-15-3.patch     25853-tmem-xsa-15-4.patch 25854-tmem-xsa-15-5.patch     25855-tmem-xsa-15-6.patch 25856-tmem-xsa-15-7.patch     25857-tmem-xsa-15-8.patch 25858-tmem-xsa-15-9.patch     25859-tmem-missing-break.patch 25860-tmem-cleanup.patch     25883-pt-MSI-cleanup.patch     25927-x86-domctl-ioport-mapping-range.patch     25929-tmem-restore-pool-version.patch

  - first XEN-PV VM fails to spawn xend: Increase wait time     for disk to appear in host bootloader Modified existing     xen-domUloader.diff. (bnc#778105)

    25752-ACPI-pm-op-valid-cpu.patch     25754-x86-PoD-early-access.patch     25755-x86-PoD-types.patch     25756-x86-MMIO-max-mapped-pfn.patch

This update fixes the following security issues in xen :

  - Grant table version switch list corruption vulnerability     (XSA-26). (CVE-2012-5510)

  - Several HVM operations do not validate the range of     their inputs (XSA-27). (CVE-2012-5511)

  - HVMOP_get_mem_access crash / HVMOP_set_mem_access     information leak (XSA-28). (CVE-2012-5512)

  - XENMEM_exchange may overwrite hypervisor memory     (XSA-29). (CVE-2012-5513)

  - Missing unlock in     guest_physmap_mark_populate_on_demand() (XSA-30).
    (CVE-2012-5514)

  - Several memory hypercall operations allow invalid extent     order values (XSA-31) Also the following bugs have been     fixed and upstream patches have been applied:.
    (CVE-2012-5515)

  - FATAL PAGE FAULT in hypervisor (arch_do_domctl)

  - 25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch

  - 26132-tmem-save-NULL-check.patch

  - 26134-x86-shadow-invlpg-check.patch

  - 26148-vcpu-timer-overflow.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4535-xsa20.patch)

  - 26149-x86-p2m-physmap-error-path.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4537-xsa22.patch)

  - 26150-x86-shadow-unhook-toplevel-check.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4538-xsa23.patch)

  - 26151-gnttab-compat-get-status-frames.patch (Replaces     CVE-2012-4539-xsa24.patch)

  - efi files missing in latest XEN update. (bnc#792476)

libvirt received security and bugfixes :

  - Fixed a libvirt remote denial of service (crash)     problem. The following bugs have been fixed :.
    (CVE-2012-4423)

  - qemu: Fix probing for guest capabilities

  - xen-xm: Generate UUID if not specified

  - xenParseXM: don't dereference NULL pointer when script     is empty

Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen Hypervisor. One of the issue (CVE-2012-5513 ) could even lead to privilege escalation from guest to host.

Some of the recently published Xen Security Advisories ( XSA 25and 28) are not fixed by this update and should be fixed in a future release.

  - CVE-2011-3131 ( XSA 5): DoS using I/OMMU faults from     PCI-passthrough guest     A VM that controls a PCI[E] device directly can cause it     to issue DMA requests to invalid addresses. Although     these requests are denied by the I/OMMU, the hypervisor     needs to handle the interrupt and clear the error from     the I/OMMU, and this can be used to live-lock a CPU and     potentially hang the host.

  - CVE-2012-4535 ( XSA 20): Timer overflow DoS     vulnerability

    A guest which sets a VCPU with an inappropriate deadline     can cause an infinite loop in Xen, blocking the affected     physical CPU indefinitely.

  - CVE-2012-4537 ( XSA 22): Memory mapping failure DoS     vulnerability

    When set_p2m_entry fails, Xen's internal data structures     (the p2m and m2p tables) can get out of sync. This     failure can be triggered by unusual guest behaviour     exhausting the memory reserved for the p2m table. If it     happens, subsequent guest-invoked memory operations can     cause Xen to fail an assertion and crash.

  - CVE-2012-4538 ( XSA 23): Unhooking empty PAE entries DoS     vulnerability

    The HVMOP_pagetable_dying hypercall does not correctly     check the caller's pagetable state, leading to a     hypervisor crash.

  - CVE-2012-4539 ( XSA 24): Grant table hypercall infinite     loop DoS vulnerability

    Due to inappropriate duplicate use of the same loop     control variable, passing bad arguments to     GNTTABOP_get_status_frames can cause an infinite loop in     the compat hypercall handler.

  - CVE-2012-5510 ( XSA 26): Grant table version switch list     corruption vulnerability

    Downgrading the grant table version of a guest involves     freeing its status pages. This freeing was incomplete -     the page(s) are freed back to the allocator, but not     removed from the domain's tracking list. This would     cause list corruption, eventually leading to a     hypervisor crash.

  - CVE-2012-5513 ( XSA 29): XENMEM_exchange may overwrite     hypervisor memory

    The handler for XENMEM_exchange accesses guest memory     without range checking the guest provided addresses,     thus allowing these accesses to include the hypervisor     reserved range.

  A malicious guest administrator can cause Xen to crash. If the out   of address space bounds access does not lead to a crash, a carefully   crafted privilege escalation cannot be excluded, even though the   guest doesn't itself control the values written.

  - CVE-2012-5514 ( XSA 30): Broken error handling in     guest_physmap_mark_populate_on_demand()

    guest_physmap_mark_populate_on_demand(), before carrying     out its actual operation, checks that the subject GFNs     are not in use. If that check fails, the code prints a     message and bypasses the gfn_unlock() matching the     gfn_lock() carried out before entering the loop. A     malicious guest administrator can then use it to cause     Xen to hang.

  - CVE-2012-5515 ( XSA 31): Several memory hypercall     operations allow invalid extent order values

    Allowing arbitrary extent_order input values for     XENMEM_decrease_reservation, XENMEM_populate_physmap,     and XENMEM_exchange can cause arbitrarily long time     being spent in loops without allowing vital other code     to get a chance to execute. This may also cause     inconsistent state resulting at the completion of these     hypercalls.

Security fixes :

  - A race condition in the way asynchronous I/O and     fallocate() interacted when using ext4 could allow a     local, unprivileged user to obtain random data from a     deleted file. (CVE-2012-4508, Important)

  - A flaw in the way the Xen hypervisor implementation     range checked guest provided addresses in the     XENMEM_exchange hypercall could allow a malicious,     para-virtualized guest administrator to crash the     hypervisor or, potentially, escalate their privileges,     allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the     hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-5513, Important)

  - A flaw in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol     implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to     cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2372, Moderate)

  - A race condition in the way access to inet->opt     ip_options was synchronized in the Linux kernel's TCP/IP     protocol suite implementation. Depending on the network     facing applications running on the system, a remote     attacker could possibly trigger this flaw to cause a     denial of service. A local, unprivileged user could use     this flaw to cause a denial of service regardless of the     applications the system runs. (CVE-2012-3552, Moderate)

  - The Xen hypervisor implementation did not properly     restrict the period values used to initialize per VCPU     periodic timers. A privileged guest user could cause an     infinite loop on the physical CPU. If the watchdog were     enabled, it would detect said loop and panic the host     system. (CVE-2012-4535, Moderate)

  - A flaw in the way the Xen hypervisor implementation     handled set_p2m_entry() error conditions could allow a     privileged, fully-virtualized guest user to crash the     hypervisor. (CVE-2012-4537, Moderate)

Bug fixes :

  - Previously, the interrupt handlers of the qla2xxx driver     could clear pending interrupts right after the IRQ lines     were attached during system start-up. Consequently, the     kernel could miss the interrupt that reported completion     of the link initialization, and the qla2xxx driver then     failed to detect all attached LUNs. With this update,     the qla2xxx driver has been modified to no longer clear     interrupt bits after attaching the IRQ lines. The driver     now correctly detects all attached LUNs as expected.

  - The Ethernet channel bonding driver reported the MII     (Media Independent Interface) status of the bond     interface in 802.3ad mode as being up even though the     MII status of all of the slave devices was down. This     could pose a problem if the MII status of the bond     interface was used to determine if failover should     occur. With this update, the agg_device_up() function     has been added to the bonding driver, which allows the     driver to report the link status of the bond interface     correctly, that is, down when all of its slaves are     down, in the 802.3ad mode.

Enhancements :

  - This update backports several changes from the latest     upstream version of the bnx2x driver. The most important     change, the remote-fault link detection feature, allows     the driver to periodically scan the physical link layer     for remote faults. If the physical link appears to be up     and a fault is detected, the driver indicates that the     link is down. When the fault is cleared, the driver     indicates that the link is up again.

  - The INET socket interface has been modified to send a     warning message when the ip_options structure is     allocated directly by a third-party module using the     kmalloc() function.

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, two bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

These packages contain the Linux kernel.

Security fixes :

* A race condition in the way asynchronous I/O and fallocate() interacted when using ext4 could allow a local, unprivileged user to obtain random data from a deleted file. (CVE-2012-4508, Important)

* A flaw in the way the Xen hypervisor implementation range checked guest provided addresses in the XENMEM_exchange hypercall could allow a malicious, para-virtualized guest administrator to crash the hypervisor or, potentially, escalate their privileges, allowing them to execute arbitrary code at the hypervisor level. (CVE-2012-5513, Important)

* A flaw in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2372, Moderate)

* A race condition in the way access to inet->opt ip_options was synchronized in the Linux kernel's TCP/IP protocol suite implementation. Depending on the network facing applications running on the system, a remote attacker could possibly trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service regardless of the applications the system runs. (CVE-2012-3552, Moderate)

* The Xen hypervisor implementation did not properly restrict the period values used to initialize per VCPU periodic timers. A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop on the physical CPU. If the watchdog were enabled, it would detect said loop and panic the host system. (CVE-2012-4535, Moderate)

* A flaw in the way the Xen hypervisor implementation handled set_p2m_entry() error conditions could allow a privileged, fully-virtualized guest user to crash the hypervisor. (CVE-2012-4537, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank Theodore Ts'o for reporting CVE-2012-4508;
the Xen project for reporting CVE-2012-5513, CVE-2012-4535, and CVE-2012-4537; and Hafid Lin for reporting CVE-2012-3552. Upstream acknowledges Dmitry Monakhov as the original reporter of CVE-2012-4508. CVE-2012-2372 was discovered by Li Honggang of Red Hat.

Bug fixes :

* Previously, the interrupt handlers of the qla2xxx driver could clear pending interrupts right after the IRQ lines were attached during system start-up. Consequently, the kernel could miss the interrupt that reported completion of the link initialization, and the qla2xxx driver then failed to detect all attached LUNs. With this update, the qla2xxx driver has been modified to no longer clear interrupt bits after attaching the IRQ lines. The driver now correctly detects all attached LUNs as expected. (BZ#870118)

* The Ethernet channel bonding driver reported the MII (Media Independent Interface) status of the bond interface in 802.3ad mode as being up even though the MII status of all of the slave devices was down. This could pose a problem if the MII status of the bond interface was used to determine if failover should occur. With this update, the agg_device_up() function has been added to the bonding driver, which allows the driver to report the link status of the bond interface correctly, that is, down when all of its slaves are down, in the 802.3ad mode. (BZ#877943)

Enhancements :

* This update backports several changes from the latest upstream version of the bnx2x driver. The most important change, the remote-fault link detection feature, allows the driver to periodically scan the physical link layer for remote faults. If the physical link appears to be up and a fault is detected, the driver indicates that the link is down. When the fault is cleared, the driver indicates that the link is up again. (BZ#870120)

* The INET socket interface has been modified to send a warning message when the ip_options structure is allocated directly by a third-party module using the kmalloc() function. (BZ#874973)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1540 advisory.

  - kernel: rds-ping cause kernel panic (CVE-2012-2372)

  - kernel: net: slab corruption due to improper synchronization around inet->opt (CVE-2012-3552)

  - kernel: ext4: AIO vs fallocate stale data exposure (CVE-2012-4508)

  - kernel: xen: VCPU timer overflow leads to PCPU deadlock and host death-by-watchdog (CVE-2012-4535)

  - kernel: xen: Memory mapping failure can crash Xen (CVE-2012-4537)

  - kernel: xen: XENMEM_exchange may overwrite hypervisor memory (CVE-2012-5513)

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

A guest can block a cpu by setting a bad VCPU deadline [XSA 20, CVE-2012-4535] (#876198) HVM guest can exhaust p2m table crashing xen [XSA 22, CVE-2012-4537] (#876203) PAE HVM guest can crash hypervisor [XSA-23, CVE-2012-4538] (#876205) 32-bit PV guest on 64-bit hypervisor can cause an hypervisor infinite loop [XSA-24, CVE-2012-4539] (#876207)

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

A guest can block a cpu by setting a bad VCPU deadline [XSA 20, CVE-2012-4535] (#876198) HVM guest can use invalid pirq values to crash xen [XSA 21, CVE-2012-4536] (#876200) HVM guest can exhaust p2m table crashing xen [XSA 22, CVE-2012-4537] (#876203) PAE HVM guest can crash hypervisor [XSA-23, CVE-2012-4538] (#876205) 32-bit PV guest on 64-bit hypervisor can cause an hypervisor infinite loop [XSA-24, CVE-2012-4539] (#876207)

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

XEN received various security and bugfixes :

  - xen: Timer overflow DoS vulnerability (XSA-20).
    (CVE-2012-4535)

  - xen: Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability (XSA-22)     The following additional bugs have beenfixed:.
    (CVE-2012-4537)

  - L3: Xen BUG at io_apic.c:129     26102-x86-IOAPIC-legacy-not-first.patch. (bnc#784087)

  - Upstream patches from Jan     25927-x86-domctl-ioport-mapping-range.patch     25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch     26061-x86-oprof-counter-range.patch     25431-x86-EDD-MBR-sig-check.patch     25480-x86_64-sysret-canonical.patch     25481-x86_64-AMD-erratum-121.patch     25485-x86_64-canonical-checks.patch     25587-param-parse-limit.patch     25589-pygrub-size-limits.patch     25744-hypercall-return-long.patch     25765-x86_64-allow-unsafe-adjust.patch     25773-x86-honor-no-real-mode.patch     25786-x86-prefer-multiboot-meminfo-over-e801.patch     25808-domain_create-return-value.patch     25814-x86_64-set-debugreg-guest.patch     24742-gnttab-misc.patch 25098-x86-emul-lock-UD.patch     25200-x86_64-trap-bounce-flags.patch     25271-x86_64-IST-index.patch

  - win2k8 guests are unable to restore after saving the vms     state ept-novell-x64.patch     23800-x86_64-guest-addr-range.patch     24168-x86-vioapic-clear-remote_irr.patch     24453-x86-vIRQ-IRR-TMR-race.patch     24456-x86-emul-lea.patch. (bnc#651093)

  - Unable to install RHEL 6.1 x86 as a paravirtualized     guest OS on SLES 10 SP4 x86 vm-install-0.2.19.tar.bz2.
    (bnc#713555)

The remote CentOS system is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2012-1540.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
90380	GLSA-201604-03 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (Venom)	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
84140	OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2015-0068) (POODLE) (Venom)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	low
83617	SUSE SLES10 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2014:0470-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
83616	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2014:0446-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83564	SUSE SLED10 / SLES10 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2012:1487-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
79489	OracleVM 3.1 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0051)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	medium
79488	OracleVM 3.0 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0050)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	medium
79487	OracleVM 2.2 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0049)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	low
74852	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:1685-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
74850	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:1687-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
74821	openSUSE Security Update : XEN (openSUSE-SU-2012:1573-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
74820	openSUSE Security Update : XEN (openSUSE-SU-2012:1572-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
70184	GLSA-201309-24 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
68663	Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-1540)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
68662	Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-1540-1)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
64238	SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 7018)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
64232	SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 7133)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
64201	SuSE 11.2 Security Update : libvirt (SAT Patch Number 7015)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
63188	Debian DSA-2582-1 : xen - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
63183	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20121204)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
63171	CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2012:1540)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
63152	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2012:1540)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
63032	Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.0-4.fc18 (2012-18146)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63010	Fedora 16 : xen-4.1.3-4.fc16 (2012-18249)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63009	Fedora 17 : xen-4.1.3-6.fc17 (2012-18242)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
62963	SuSE 10 Security Update : Xen (ZYPP Patch Number 8359)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
801531	CentOS RHSA-2012-1540 Security Check	Log Correlation Engine	Generic	high

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