Xen 4.2.x through 4.5.x does not initialize certain fields, which allows certain remote service domains to obtain sensitive information from memory via a (1) XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo or (2) XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist request.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2020-0039 for details.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0248 for details.

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.

Multiple security issues have been found in the Xen virtualisation solution, which may result in denial of service or information disclosure.

The Xen Project reports :

The handler for XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo failed to initialize a padding field subsequently copied to guest memory.

A similar leak existed in XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist, which is being addressed here regardless of that operation being declared unsafe for disaggregation by XSA-77.

Malicious or buggy stub domain kernels or tool stacks otherwise living outside of Domain0 may be able to read sensitive data relating to the hypervisor or other guests not under the control of that domain.

Xen was updated to 4.4.2 to fix multiple vulnerabilities and non-security bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-4103: Potential unintended writes to host MSI     message data field via qemu (XSA-128) (boo#931625)

  - CVE-2015-4104: PCI MSI mask bits inadvertently exposed     to guests (XSA-129) (boo#931626)

  - CVE-2015-4105: Guest triggerable qemu MSI-X pass-through     error messages (XSA-130) (boo#931627)

  - CVE-2015-4106: Unmediated PCI register access in qemu     (XSA-131) (boo#931628)

  - CVE-2015-4164: DoS through iret hypercall handler     (XSA-136) (boo#932996)

  - CVE-2015-4163: GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref operation     misbehavior (XSA-134) (boo#932790)

  - CVE-2015-3209: heap overflow in qemu pcnet controller     allowing guest to host escape (XSA-135) (boo#932770)

  - CVE-2015-3456: Fixed a buffer overflow in the floppy     drive emulation, which could be used to denial of     service attacks or potential code execution against the     host. ()

  - CVE-2015-3340: Xen did not initialize certain fields,     which allowed certain remote service domains to obtain     sensitive information from memory via a (1)     XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo or (2)     XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist request. ()

  - CVE-2015-2752: Long latency MMIO mapping operations are     not preemptible (XSA-125 boo#922705)

  - CVE-2015-2756: Unmediated PCI command register access in     qemu (XSA-126 boo#922706)

  - CVE-2015-2751: Certain domctl operations may be abused     to lock up the host (XSA-127 boo#922709)

  - CVE-2015-2151: Hypervisor memory corruption due to x86     emulator flaw (boo#919464 XSA-123)

  - CVE-2015-2045: Information leak through version     information hypercall (boo#918998 XSA-122)

  - CVE-2015-2044: Information leak via internal x86 system     device emulation (boo#918995 (XSA-121)

  - CVE-2015-2152: HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated     VGA graphics backends (boo#919663 XSA-119)

  - CVE-2014-3615: information leakage when guest sets high     resolution (boo#895528)

The following non-security bugs were fixed :

  - xentop: Fix memory leak on read failure 

  - boo#923758: xen dmesg contains bogus output in early     boot

  - boo#921842: Xentop doesn't display disk statistics for     VMs using qdisks

  - boo#919098: L3: XEN blktap device intermittently fails     to connect 

  - boo#882089: Windows 2012 R2 fails to boot up with     greater than 60 vcpus

  - boo#903680: Problems with detecting free loop devices on     Xen guest startup

  - boo#861318: xentop reports 'Found interface vif101.0 but     domain 101 does not exist.'

  - boo#901488: Intel ixgbe driver assigns rx/tx queues per     core resulting in irq problems on servers with a large     amount of CPU cores

  - boo#910254: SLES11 SP3 Xen VT-d igb NIC doesn't work

  - boo#912011: high ping latency after upgrade to latest     SLES11SP3 on xen Dom0

  - boo#906689: let systemd schedule xencommons after     network-online.target and remote-fs.target so that     xendomains has access to remote shares

The following functionality was enabled or enhanced :

  - Enable spice support in qemu for x86_64

  - Add Qxl vga support

  - Enhancement to virsh/libvirtd 'send-key' command     (FATE#317240)

  - Add domain_migrate_constraints_set API to Xend's http     interface (FATE#317239)

The XEN hypervisor was updated to fix two security issues :

  - Fixed a buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation,     which could be used to denial of service attacks or     potential code execution against the host.
    (CVE-2015-3456)

  - Xen did not initialize certain fields, which allowed     certain remote service domains to obtain sensitive     information from memory via a (1) XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo     or (2) XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist request.
    (CVE-2015-3340)

Xen was updated to fix two security issues and a bug :

CVE-2015-3456: A buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to carry out denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. This vulnerability is also known as VENOM.

CVE-2015-3340: Xen did not initialize certain fields, which allowed certain remote service domains to obtain sensitive information from memory via a (1) XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo or (2) XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist request.

An exception in setCPUAffinity when restoring guests. (bsc#910441)

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 was updated to fix two security issues :

CVE-2015-3456: A buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to carry out denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. This vulnerability is also known as VENOM.

CVE-2015-3340: An information leak through XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo().
(XSA-132)

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 was updated to fix two security issues and bugs.

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2015-3340: Xen did not initialize certain fields,     which allowed certain remote service domains to obtain     sensitive information from memory via a (1)     XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo or (2)     XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist request.

  - CVE-2015-2751: Xen, when using toolstack disaggregation,     allowed remote domains with partial management control     to cause a denial of service (host lock) via unspecified     domctl operations.

  - CVE-2015-2752: The XEN_DOMCTL_memory_mapping hypercall     in Xen, when using a PCI passthrough device, was not     preemptable, which allowed local x86 HVM domain users to     cause a denial of service (host CPU consumption) via a     crafted request to the device model (qemu-dm).

  - CVE-2015-3456: Fixed a buffer overflow in the floppy     drive emulation, which could be used to denial of     service attacks or potential code execution against the     host.

Bugs fixed :

  - xentop: Fix memory leak on read failure

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.

Information leak through XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo [XSA-132,CVE-2015-3340]

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.

Information leak through XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo [XSA-132, CVE-2015-3340]

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
140019	OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2020-0039) (Bunker Buster) (Foreshadow) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout) (Meltdown) (POODLE) (Spectre)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	critical
111992	OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0248) (Bunker Buster) (Foreshadow) (Meltdown) (POODLE) (Spectre)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	critical
90380	GLSA-201604-03 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (Venom)	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
87288	Debian DSA-3414-1 : xen - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
84714	FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- Information leak through XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo (ce658051-27ea-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	low
84333	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2015-434) (Venom)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83965	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2015-391) (Venom)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83859	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2015:0944-1) (Venom)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83856	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2015:0940-1) (Venom)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83853	SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2015:0927-1) (Venom)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83757	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:0923-1) (Venom)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83207	Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.2-3.fc21 (2015-6670)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
83205	Fedora 20 : xen-4.3.4-3.fc20 (2015-6583)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
83075	Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.0-8.fc22 (2015-6569)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

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