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.

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.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 LTSS Xen hypervisor and toolset have been updated to fix various security issues.

The following security issues have been addressed :

  - 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-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-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-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-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-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-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)

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 :

  - x86/HVM: only allow ring 0 guest code to make hypercalls     XSA-76 (Jan Beulich) [17822325] (CVE-2013-4554)

  - x86: restrict XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist XSA-74 (Jan Beulich)     [17821907] (CVE-2013-4553)

  - gnttab: correct locking order reversal XSA-73 (Andrew     Cooper) [orabug 17768955] (CVE-2013-4494)

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

  - x86/HVM: only allow ring 0 guest code to make hypercalls     Anything else would allow for privilege escalation. This     is CVE-2013-4554 / XSA-76. (CVE-2013-4554)

  - x86: restrict XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist Coverity ID 1055652     (See the code comment.) This is CVE-2013-4553 / XSA-74.
    (CVE-2013-4553)

  - gnttab: correct locking order reversal Coverity ID     1087189 Correct a lock order reversal between a domains     page allocation and grant table locks. This is     CVE-2013-4494 / XSA-73.

    Consolidate error handling.

    Backported to Xen-4.1 (CVE-2013-4494)

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

  - x86/HVM: only allow ring 0 guest code to make hypercalls     Anything else would allow for privilege escalation. This     is CVE-2013-4554 / XSA-76. (CVE-2013-4554)

  - x86: restrict XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist Coverity ID 1055652     (See the code comment.) This is CVE-2013-4553 / XSA-74.
    (CVE-2013-4553)

  - gnttab: update version 1 of xsa73-4.1.patch to version 3     Version 1 of xsa73-4.1.patch had an error: bool_t     drop_dom_ref = (e->tot_pages-- == 0)  should have been:
    bool_t drop_dom_ref = (e->tot_pages-- == 1) 

    Consolidate error handling.

    Backported to Xen-4.1 (CVE-2013-4494)

  - Xen: Spread boot time page scrubbing across all     available CPU's Written by Malcolm Crossley The page     scrubbing is done in 256MB chunks in lockstep across all     the CPU's. This allows for the boot CPU to hold the     heap_lock whilst each chunk is being scrubbed and then     release the heap_lock when all CPU's are finished     scrubing their individual chunk. This allows for the     heap_lock to not be held continously and for pending     softirqs are to be serviced periodically across all     CPU's. The page scrub memory chunks are allocated to the     CPU's in a NUMA aware fashion to reduce Socket     interconnect overhead and improve performance. This     patch reduces the boot page scrub time on a 256GB 16     core AMD Opteron machine from 1 minute 46 seconds to 38     seconds.

  - gnttab: correct locking order reversal Coverity ID     1087189 Correct a lock order reversal between a domains     page allocation and grant table locks. This is XSA-73.

    Consolidate error handling.

    Backported to Xen-4.1 (CVE-2013-4494)

  - piix4acpi, xen, hotplug: Fix race with ACPI AML code and     hotplug. This is a race so the amount varies but on a     4PCPU box I seem to get only ~14 out of 16 vCPUs I want     to online. The issue at hand is that QEMU xenstore.c     hotplug code changes the vCPU array and triggers an ACPI     SCI for each vCPU online/offline change. That means we     modify the array of vCPUs as the guests ACPI AML code is     reading it - resulting in the guest reading the data     only once and not changing the CPU states appropiately.
    The fix is to seperate the vCPU array changes from the     ACPI SCI notification. The code now will enumerate all     of the vCPUs and change the vCPU array if there is a     need for a change. If a change did occur then only _one_     ACPI SCI pulse is sent to the guest. The vCPU array at     that point has the online/offline modified to what the     user wanted to have.

    [v1: Use stack for the 'attr' instead of malloc/free]

  - piix4acpi, xen: Clarify that the qemu_set_irq calls just     do an IRQ pulse. The 'qemu_cpu_notify' raises and lowers     the ACPI SCI line when the vCPU state has changed.
    Instead of doing the two functions, just use one     function that describes exactly what it does.

  - piix4acpi, xen, vcpu hotplug: Split the notification     from the changes. This is a prepatory patch that splits     the notification of an vCPU change from the actual     changes to the vCPU array.

  - Backported Carson's changes - Requests to connect on     port 8003 with a LOW/weak cipher are now rejected.

Multiple security issues have been discovered in the Xen virtualisation solution which may result in information leaks or denial of service.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201407-03 (Xen: Multiple Vunlerabilities)

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

    A remote attacker can utilize multiple vectors to execute arbitrary       code, cause Denial of Service, or gain access to data on the host.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Xen was updated to fix various bugs and security issues :

Update to Xen version 4.2.4 c/s 26280.

  - bnc#861256 - CVE-2014-1950: xen: XSA-88: use-after-free     in xc_cpupool_getinfo() under memory pressure. (fix     included with update)

  - bnc#863297: xend/pvscsi: recognize also SCSI CDROM     devices

  - bnc#858496 - CVE-2014-1642: Xen: XSA-83: Out-of-memory     condition yielding memory corruption during IRQ setup

  - bnc#860163 - xen: XSA-84: integer overflow in several     XSM/Flask hypercalls (CVE-2014-1891 CVE-2014-1892     CVE-2014-1893 CVE-2014-1894)

  - bnc#860165 - CVE-2014-1895: xen: XSA-85: Off-by-one     error in FLASK_AVC_CACHESTAT hypercall

  - bnc#860300 - CVE-2014-1896: xen: XSA-86: libvchan     failure handling malicious ring indexes

  - bnc#860302 - CVE-2014-1666: xen: XSA-87:
    PHYSDEVOP_(prepare,release)_msix exposed to unprivileged     guests

  - bnc#858311 - Server is not booting in kernel XEN after     latest updates - (XEN) setup 0000:00:18.0 for d0 failed     (-19)

  - bnc#858496 - CVE-2014-1642: Xen: XSA-83: Out-of-memory     condition yielding memory corruption during IRQ setup

  - bnc#853049 - CVE-2013-6885: xen: XSA-82: Guest     triggerable AMD CPU erratum may cause host hang

  - bnc#853048 - CVE-2013-6400: xen: XSA-80: IOMMU TLB     flushing may be inadvertently suppressed

  - bnc#831120 - CVE-2013-2212: xen: XSA-60: Excessive time     to disable caching with HVM guests with PCI passthrough

  - bnc#848014 - [HP HPS] Xen hypervisor panics on 8-blades     nPar with 46-bit memory addressing

  - bnc#833251 - [HP BCS SLES11 Bug]: In HPs UEFI x86_64     platform and with xen environment, in booting stage ,xen     hypervisor will panic.

  - pygrub: Support (/dev/xvda) style disk specifications

  - bnc#849667 - CVE-2014-1895: xen: XSA-74: Lock order     reversal between page_alloc_lock and mm_rwlock

  - bnc#849668 - CVE-2013-4554: xen: XSA-76: Hypercalls     exposed to privilege rings 1 and 2 of HVM guests

  - bnc#842417 - In HPs UEFI x86_64 platform and sles11sp3     with xen environment, dom0 will soft lockup on multiple     blades nPar.

  - bnc#848014 - [HP HPS] Xen hypervisor panics on 8-blades     nPar with 46-bit memory addressing

  - bnc#846849 - Soft lockup with PCI passthrough and many     VCPUs

  - bnc#833483 - Boot Failure with xen kernel in UEFI mode     with error 'No memory for trampoline'

  - bnc#849665 - CVE-2013-4551: xen: XSA-75: Host crash due     to guest VMX instruction execution

  - The upstream version of checking for xend when using the     'xl' command is used is not working.

  - bnc#840997 - It is possible to start a VM twice on the     same node.

  - bnc#848657 - xen: CVE-2013-4494: XSA-73: Lock order     reversal between page allocation and grant table locks

Xen was updated to 4.3.1 and also to fix various security issues and bugs :

  - bnc#851749 - Xen service file does not call xend     properly xend.service 

  - Add missing requires to pciutils package for xend-tools

  - bnc#851386 - xen: XSA-78: Insufficient TLB flushing in     VT-d (iommu) code

  - Make -devel package depend on libuuid-devel, since     libxl.h includes uuid.h

  - bnc#849667 - CVE-2013-4553: xen: XSA-74: Lock order     reversal between page_alloc_lock and mm_rwlock

  - bnc#849665 - CVE-2013-4551: xen: XSA-75: Host crash due     to guest VMX instruction execution

  - bnc#849668 - CVE-2013-4554: xen: XSA-76: Hypercalls     exposed to privilege rings 1 and 2 of HVM guests

  - bnc#848657 - xen: CVE-2013-4494: XSA-73: Lock order     reversal between page allocation and grant table locks

  - Update to Xen 4.3.1 

  - bnc#845520 - CVE-2013-4416: xen: ocaml xenstored     mishandles oversized message replies

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

* It was found that the Xen hypervisor did not always lock 'page_alloc_lock' and 'grant_table.lock' in the same order. This could potentially lead to a deadlock. A malicious guest administrator could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the host.
(CVE-2013-4494, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* A recent patch to the CIFS code that introduced the NTLMSSP (NT LAN Manager Security Support Provider) authentication mechanism caused a regression in CIFS behavior. As a result of the regression, an encryption key that is returned during the SMB negotiation protocol response was only used for the first session that was created on the SMB client. Any subsequent mounts to the same server did not use the encryption key returned by the initial negotiation with the server. As a consequence, it was impossible to mount multiple SMB shares with different credentials to the same server. A patch has been applied to correct this problem so that an encryption key or a server challenge is now provided for every SMB session during the SMB negotiation protocol response. (BZ#1029865)

* The igb driver previously used a 16-bit mask when writing values of the flow control high-water mark to hardware registers on a network device. Consequently, the values were truncated on some network devices, disrupting the flow control. A patch has been applied to the igb driver so that it now uses a 32-bit mask as expected. (BZ#1041694)

* The IPMI driver did not properly handle kernel panic messages.
Consequently, when a kernel panic occurred on a system that was utilizing IPMI without Kdump being set up, a second kernel panic could be triggered. A patch has been applied to the IPMI driver to fix this problem, and a message handler now properly waits for a response to panic event messages. (BZ#1049731)

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0108 advisory.

    kernel     [2.6.18-371.4.1]
    - [char] ipmi: fix message handling during panics (Tony Camuso) [1049731 995293]
    - [net] igb: Use 32bit mask calculating the flow control watermarks (Stefan Assmann) [1041694 1036115]
    - [fs] NTLM auth and sign - Use appropriate server challenge (Sachin Prabhu) [1029865 1018286]
    - [xen] gnttab: correct locking order reversal (Radim Krcmar) [1026245 1026246] {CVE-2013-4494}

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

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

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2014:0108 :

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

* It was found that the Xen hypervisor did not always lock 'page_alloc_lock' and 'grant_table.lock' in the same order. This could potentially lead to a deadlock. A malicious guest administrator could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the host.
(CVE-2013-4494, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* A recent patch to the CIFS code that introduced the NTLMSSP (NT LAN Manager Security Support Provider) authentication mechanism caused a regression in CIFS behavior. As a result of the regression, an encryption key that is returned during the SMB negotiation protocol response was only used for the first session that was created on the SMB client. Any subsequent mounts to the same server did not use the encryption key returned by the initial negotiation with the server. As a consequence, it was impossible to mount multiple SMB shares with different credentials to the same server. A patch has been applied to correct this problem so that an encryption key or a server challenge is now provided for every SMB session during the SMB negotiation protocol response. (BZ#1029865)

* The igb driver previously used a 16-bit mask when writing values of the flow control high-water mark to hardware registers on a network device. Consequently, the values were truncated on some network devices, disrupting the flow control. A patch has been applied to the igb driver so that it now uses a 32-bit mask as expected. (BZ#1041694)

* The IPMI driver did not properly handle kernel panic messages.
Consequently, when a kernel panic occurred on a system that was utilizing IPMI without Kdump being set up, a second kernel panic could be triggered. A patch has been applied to the IPMI driver to fix this problem, and a message handler now properly waits for a response to panic event messages. (BZ#1049731)

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

- It was found that the Xen hypervisor did not always lock     'page_alloc_lock' and 'grant_table.lock' in the same     order. This could potentially lead to a deadlock. A     malicious guest administrator could use this flaw to     cause a denial of service on the host. (CVE-2013-4494,     Moderate)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

  - A recent patch to the CIFS code that introduced the     NTLMSSP (NT LAN Manager Security Support Provider)     authentication mechanism caused a regression in CIFS     behavior. As a result of the regression, an encryption     key that is returned during the SMB negotiation protocol     response was only used for the first session that was     created on the SMB client. Any subsequent mounts to the     same server did not use the encryption key returned by     the initial negotiation with the server. As a     consequence, it was impossible to mount multiple SMB     shares with different credentials to the same server. A     patch has been applied to correct this problem so that     an encryption key or a server challenge is now provided     for every SMB session during the SMB negotiation     protocol response.

  - The igb driver previously used a 16-bit mask when     writing values of the flow control high-water mark to     hardware registers on a network device. Consequently,     the values were truncated on some network devices,     disrupting the flow control. A patch has been applied to     the igb driver so that it now uses a 32-bit mask as     expected.

  - The IPMI driver did not properly handle kernel panic     messages. Consequently, when a kernel panic occurred on     a system that was utilizing IPMI without Kdump being set     up, a second kernel panic could be triggered. A patch     has been applied to the IPMI driver to fix this problem,     and a message handler now properly waits for a response     to panic event messages.

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

The Xen hypervisor and tool-suite have been updated to fix security issues and bugs :

  - XSA-73: A lock order reversal between page allocation     and grant table locks could lead to host crashes or even     host code execution. (CVE-2013-4494)

  - XSA-74: A lock order reversal between page_alloc_lock     and mm_rwlock could lead to deadlocks. (CVE-2013-4553)

  - XSA-76: Hypercalls exposed to privilege rings 1 and 2 of     HVM guests which might lead to Hypervisor escalation     under specific circumstances. (CVE-2013-4554)

  - XSA-78: Insufficient TLB flushing in VT-d (iommu) code     could lead to access of memory that was revoked.
    (CVE-2013-6375)

  - XSA-75: A host crash due to guest VMX instruction     execution was fixed. Non-security bugs have also been     fixed:. (CVE-2013-4551)

  - It is possible to start a VM twice on the same node.
    (bnc#840997)

  - In HP's UEFI x86_64 platform and SLES 11-SP3, dom0 will     could lock-up on multiple blades nPar. (bnc#842417)

  - Xen Hypervisor panics on 8-blades nPar with 46-bit     memory addressing. (bnc#848014)

  - Soft lock-up with PCI pass-through and many VCPUs.
    (bnc#846849)

  - Boot Failure with Xen kernel in UEFI mode with error 'No     memory for trampoline'. (bnc#833483)

  - Increase the maximum supported CPUs in the Hypervisor to     512.

Xen has been updated to fix a security issue and a bug :

  - XSA-73: A lock order reversal between page allocation     and grant table locks could lead to host crashes or even     host code execution. (CVE-2013-4494)

A non-security bug has also been fixed :

  - It is possible to start a VM twice on the same node     (bnc#840997)

Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies systemd changes to allow oxenstored to be used instead of xenstored

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.

update to xen-4.3.1, Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table lock ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies systemd changes to allow oxenstored to be used instead of xenstored

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
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
83614	SUSE SLES10 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2014:0411-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
79525	OracleVM 2.2 : xen (OVMSA-2013-0088)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	medium
79524	OracleVM 3.1 : xen (OVMSA-2013-0087)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	medium
79523	OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2013-0085)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	medium
77240	Debian DSA-3006-1 : xen - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
76544	GLSA-201407-03 : Xen: Multiple Vunlerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
75312	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2014:0483-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
75232	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2013:1876-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
72246	CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2014:0108)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
72228	Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0108)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
72227	Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0108-1)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
72210	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20140129)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
72209	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2014:0108)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
71562	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 8588)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
71393	SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 8577)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
70831	Fedora 19 : xen-4.2.3-7.fc19 (2013-20555)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
70830	Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.3-7.fc18 (2013-20544)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
70813	Fedora 20 : xen-4.3.1-1.fc20 (2013-20517)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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