An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, possibly allowing guest OS users to gain host OS privileges because small IOMMU mappings are unsafely combined into larger ones.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - xsa155 xen: paravirtualized drivers incautious about shared memory contents (XSA-155) (CVE-2015-8550)

  - xen: insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs (CVE-2018-19962)

  - The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the     driver domain, allows local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and host OS crash) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X     capable physical PCI device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_* operations, aka Linux pciback missing     sanity checks. (CVE-2015-8551)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, informations leaks or privilege escalation. For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.4lts5-0+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

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

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests     to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service     (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)

  - CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu()     found in slirp (bsc#1123157).

  - Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy     guests with passed through PCI devices to be able to     escalate their privileges, crash the host, or access     data belonging to other guests. Additionally memory     leaks were also possible (bsc#1126140).

  - Fixed a race condition issue which could allow malicious     PV guests to escalate their privilege to that of the     hypervisor (bsc#1126141).

  - Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious     unprivileged guest userspace process to escalate its     privilege to that of other userspace processes in the     same guest and potentially thereby to that of the guest     operating system (bsc#1126201).

  - CVE-2019-9824: Fixed an information leak in SLiRP     networking implementation which could allow a     user/process to read uninitialised stack memory contents     (bsc#1129623).

  - CVE-2018-19961 CVE-2018-19962: Fixed insufficient TLB     flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs     (XSA-275)(bsc#1115040).

  - CVE-2018-19965: Fixed denial of service issue from     attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses     (XSA-279)(bsc#1115045).

  - CVE-2018-19966: Fixed issue introduced by XSA-240 that     could have caused conflicts with shadow paging     (XSA-280)(bsc#1115047).

  - Fixed an issue which could allow malicious PV guests may     cause a host crash or gain access to data pertaining to     other guests.Additionally, vulnerable configurations are     likely to be unstable even in the absence of an attack     (bsc#1126198).

  - Fixed multiple access violations introduced by     XENMEM_exchange hypercall which could allow a single PV     guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a     denial of service (bsc#1126192).

  - Fixed an issue which could allow malicious 64bit PV     guests to cause a host crash (bsc#1127400).

  - Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy x86     PV guest kernels to mount a Denial of Service attack     affecting the whole system (bsc#1126197).

  - Fixed an issue which could allow an untrusted PV domain     with access to a physical device to DMA into its own     pagetables leading to privilege escalation     (bsc#1126195).

  - Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious or buggy     x86 PV guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service     attack affecting the whole system (bsc#1126196).

Other issues addressed :

  - Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

  - Fixed an issue where live migrations were failing when     spectre was enabled on xen boot cmdline (bsc#1116380).

  - Fixed an issue where setup of grant_tables and other     variables may fail (bsc#1126325).

  - Fixed a building issue (bsc#1119161).

  - Fixed an issue where xpti=no-dom0 was not working as     expected (bsc#1105528).

  - Packages should no longer use /var/adm/fillup-templates     (bsc#1069468). 

  - Added Xen cmdline option 'suse_vtsc_tolerance' to avoid     TSC emulation for HVM domUs (bsc#1026236).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() found in slirp (bsc#1123157).

CVE-2017-13672: Fixed an out of bounds read access during display update (bsc#1056336).

Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy guests with passed through PCI devices to be able to escalate their privileges, crash the host, or access data belonging to other guests. Additionally memory leaks were also possible (bsc#1126140)

Fixed a race condition issue which could allow malicious PV guests to escalate their privilege to that of the hypervisor (bsc#1126141).

CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds msg buffer access which could lead to denial of service (bsc#1114423).

Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious unprivileged guest userspace process to escalate its privilege to that of other userspace processes in the same guest and potentially thereby to that of the guest operating system (bsc#1126201).

CVE-2018-17958: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the rtl8139 component (bsc#1111007)

CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)

CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756).

CVE-2019-9824: Fixed an information leak in SLiRP networking implementation which could allow a user/process to read uninitialised stack memory contents (bsc#1129623).

CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)

CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047).

CVE-2018-10839: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the ne2000 component (bsc#1110924).

CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045).

Fixed an issue which could allow malicious 64bit PV guests to cause a host crash (bsc#1127400).

Fixed an issue which could allow malicious PV guests may cause a host crash or gain access to data pertaining to other guests.Additionally, vulnerable configurations are likely to be unstable even in the absence of an attack (bsc#1126198).

Fixed multiple access violations introduced by XENMEM_exchange hypercall which could allow a single PV guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service (bsc#1126192).

CVE-2018-17963: Fixed an integer overflow in relation to large packet sizes, leading to a denial of service (DoS). (bsc#1111014).

Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service attack affecting the whole system (bsc#1126196).

Fixed an issue which could allow an untrusted PV domain with access to a physical device to DMA into its own pagetables leading to privilege escalation (bsc#1126195).

CVE-2018-17962: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the pcnet component (bsc#1111011)

CVE-2018-18438: Fixed an integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read function which could lead to memory corruption (bsc#1112188).

Other issues fixed: Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

Fixed an issue where XEN SLE12-SP1 domU hangs on SLE12-SP3 HV1108940 (bsc#1108940).

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.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access issue that was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation while writing a message in lsi_do_msgin. It could occur during migration if the 'msg_len' field has an invalid value. A user/process could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS (bsc#1114423).

CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)

CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow in Bluetooth routines allows memory corruption (bsc#1117756).

CVE-2018-18438: Fixed an integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read function which allows memory corruption (bsc#1112188).

CVE-2018-17962: Fixed a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used (bsc#1111011).

Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious unprivileged guest userspace process to escalate its privilege to that of other userspace processes in the same guest and potentially thereby to that of the guest operating system (bsc#1126201).

CVE-2018-19961 CVE-2018-19962: Fixed insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs (XSA-275)(bsc#1115040).

CVE-2018-17963: Fixed qemu_deliver_packet_iov in net/net.c that accepts packet sizes greater than INT_MAX, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact.
(bsc#1111014)

Fixed an issue which could allow an untrusted PV domain with access to a physical device to DMA into its own pagetables leading to privilege escalation (bsc#1126195).

Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service attack affecting the whole system (bsc#1126196)

CVE-2018-17958: Fixed a Buffer Overflow in rtl8139_do_receive in hw/net/rtl8139.c because an incorrect integer data type is used (bsc#1111007).

CVE-2018-10839: Fixed an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow issue (bsc#1110924).

CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() found in slirp (bsc#1123157).

CVE-2018-19966: Fixed issue introduced by XSA-240 that could have caused conflicts with shadow paging (XSA-280)(bsc#1115047).

CVE-2017-13672: Fixed an out of bounds read access during display update (bsc#1056336).

Fixed multiple access violations introduced by XENMEM_exchange hypercall which could allow a single PV guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service (bsc#1126192).

Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy guests with passed through PCI devices to be able to escalate their privileges, crash the host, or access data belonging to other guests. Additionally memory leaks were also possible (bsc#1126140).

Fixed a race condition issue which could allow malicious PV guests to escalate their privilege to that of the hypervisor (bsc#1126141).

CVE-2019-9824: Fixed an information leak in SLiRP networking implementation which could allow a user/process to read uninitialised stack memory contents (bsc#1129623).

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.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Update to Xen 4.10.2 bug fix release (bsc#1027519).

Security vulnerabilities fixed :

  - CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related     to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which     potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges,     may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire     host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed     to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)

  - CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID     instruction in case non-canonical addresses are     accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash,     resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the     entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)

  - CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix     for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and     allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a     Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)

  - CVE-2018-18883: Fixed an issue related to inproper     restriction of nested VT-x, which allowed a guest to     cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service     (DoS). (XSA-278) (bsc#1114405)

  - CVE-2018-15468: Fixed incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling,     which allowed guests to enable Branch Trace Store and     may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) of the entire host.
    (XSA-269) (bsc#1103276)

  - CVE-2018-15469: Fixed use of v2 grant tables on ARM,     which were not properly implemented and may cause a     Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-268) (bsc#1103275)

  - CVE-2018-15470: Fixed an issue in the logic in     oxenstored for handling writes, which allowed a guest to     write memory unbounded leading to system-wide Denial of     Service (DoS). (XSA-272) (bsc#1103279)

  - CVE-2018-3646: Mitigations for VMM aspects of L1     Terminal Fault (XSA-273) (bsc#1091107)

Other bugs fixed :

  - Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV     (bsc#1108940)

  - Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected     (bsc#1105528)

  - Fixed a kernel oops related to fs/dcache.c called by     d_materialise_unique() (bsc#1094508)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

xen: various flaws (#1685577) grant table transfer issues on large hosts [XSA-284] race with pass-through device hotplug [XSA-285] x86:
steal_page violates page_struct access discipline [XSA-287] x86:
Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline [XSA-288] missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation [XSA-290] x86/PV: page type reference counting issue with failed IOMMU update [XSA-291] x86: insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID [XSA-292] x86: PV kernel context switch corruption [XSA-293] x86 shadow: Insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID [XSA-294]

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update to xen-4.10.3

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  - insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings     with AMD IOMMUs [XSA-275] (#1651665)

  - x86: DoS from attempting to use INVPCID with a     non-canonical addresses [XSA-279]

  - Fix for XSA-240 conflicts with shadow paging [XSA-280]

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guest use of HLE constructs may lock up host [XSA-282]

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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor :

  - CVE-2018-19961 / CVE-2018-19962     Paul Durrant discovered that incorrect TLB handling     could result in denial of service, privilege escalation     or information leaks.

  - CVE-2018-19965     Matthew Daley discovered that incorrect handling of the     INVPCID instruction could result in denial of service by     PV guests.

  - CVE-2018-19966     It was discovered that a regression in the fix to     address CVE-2017-15595 could result in denial of     service, privilege escalation or information leaks by a     PV guest.

  - CVE-2018-19967     It was discovered that an error in some Intel CPUs could     result in denial of service by a guest instance.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security vulnerabilities fixed :

CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)

CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)

CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)

CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)

CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756).

CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access in the LSI53C895A SCSI host bus adapter emulation, which allowed a user and/or process to crash the qemu process resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
(bsc#1114423)

Fixed an integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read(), which allowed for memory corruption. (bsc#1112188)

CVE-2017-13672: Fixed an out of bounds read access during display update (bsc#1056336)

CVE-2018-17958: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the rtl8139 component (bsc#1111007)

CVE-2018-17962: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the pcnet component (bsc#1111011)

CVE-2018-17963: Fixed an integer overflow in relation to large packet sizes, leading to a denial of service (DoS). (bsc#1111014)

CVE-2018-10839: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the ne2000 component (bsc#1110924)

Other bugs fixed: Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940)

Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

Fixed crashing VMs when migrating between dom0 hosts (bsc#1031382)

Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected (bsc#1105528)

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.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security vulnerabilities fixed :

CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)

CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)

CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)

CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756).

CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access in the LSI53C895A SCSI host bus adapter emulation, which allowed a user and/or process to crash the qemu process resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
(bsc#1114423)

Other bugs fixed: Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940)

Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected (bsc#1105528)

Fixed an issue with live migrations, which used to fail when spectre is enabled on xen boot cmdline (bsc#1116380)

Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

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.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Update to Xen 4.11.1 bug fix release (bsc#1027519)

CVE-2018-17963: Fixed an integer overflow issue in the QEMU emulator, which could occur when a packet with large packet size is processed. A user inside a guest could have used this flaw to crash the qemu process resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1111014)

CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access in the LSI53C895A SCSI host bus adapter emulation, which allowed a user and/or process to crash the qemu process resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
(bsc#1114423)

CVE-2018-18883: Fixed an issue related to inproper restriction of nested VT-x, which allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-278) (bsc#1114405)

CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)

CVE-2018-19963: Fixed the allocation of pages used to communicate with external emulators, which may have cuased Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-276) (bsc#1115043)

CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)

CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)

CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)

CVE-2018-19964: Fixed the incorrect error handling of p2m page removals, which allowed a guest to cause a deadlock, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-277) (bsc#1115044)

CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756).

Other bugs fixed: Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940)

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.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Update to Xen 4.10.2 bug fix release (bsc#1027519).

Security vulnerabilities fixed :

CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)

CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)

CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)

CVE-2018-18883: Fixed an issue related to inproper restriction of nested VT-x, which allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-278) (bsc#1114405)

CVE-2018-15468: Fixed incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling, which allowed guests to enable Branch Trace Store and may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) of the entire host. (XSA-269) (bsc#1103276)

CVE-2018-15469: Fixed use of v2 grant tables on ARM, which were not properly implemented and may cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
(XSA-268) (bsc#1103275)

CVE-2018-15470: Fixed an issue in the logic in oxenstored for handling writes, which allowed a guest to write memory unbounded leading to system-wide Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-272) (bsc#1103279)

CVE-2018-3646: Mitigations for VMM aspects of L1 Terminal Fault (XSA-273) (bsc#1091107)

Other bugs fixed: Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940)

Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected (bsc#1105528)

Fixed a kernel oops related to fs/dcache.c called by d_materialise_unique() (bsc#1094508)

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.

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability allowing a guest system to potentially elevate privileges, access protected information, and perform a DoS against the host. Only AMD systems with IOMMU enabled are affected.

Note that Nessus has checked the changeset versions based on the xen.git change log. Nessus did not check guest hardware configurations or if patches were applied manually to the source code before a recompile and reinstall.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access issue was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation while writing a message in lsi_do_msgin (bsc#1114423).

CVE-2018-18883: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference that could have been triggered by nested VT-x that where not properly restricted (XSA-278)(bsc#1114405).

CVE-2018-19965: Fixed denial of service issue from attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses (XSA-279)(bsc#1115045).

CVE-2018-19966: Fixed issue introduced by XSA-240 that could have caused conflicts with shadow paging (XSA-280)(bsc#1115047).

CVE-2018-19961 CVE-2018-19962: Fixed insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs (XSA-275)(bsc#1115040).

Non-security issues fixed: Added upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519).

Fixed XEN SLE12-SP1 domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940).

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.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access     issue was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter     emulation while writing a message in lsi_do_msgin     (bsc#1114423).

  - CVE-2018-18883: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference that     could have been triggered by nested VT-x that where not     properly restricted (XSA-278)(bsc#1114405).

  - CVE-2018-19965: Fixed denial of service issue from     attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses     (XSA-279)(bsc#1115045).

  - CVE-2018-19966: Fixed issue introduced by XSA-240 that     could have caused conflicts with shadow paging     (XSA-280)(bsc#1115047).

  - CVE-2018-19961 CVE-2018-19962: Fixed insufficient TLB     flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs     (XSA-275)(bsc#1115040).

Non-security issues fixed :

  - Added upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

The version of Citrix XenServer running on the remote host is missing a security hotfix. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. All of which allow a denial-of-service attack and one allowing privilege escalation as well as information disclosure.
Please refer to the vendor advisory for mitigating factors.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199323	RHEL 5 : kernel-xen (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196575	RHEL 5 : xen (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
129734	Debian DLA-1949-1 : xen security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
124147	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2019-1226)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
123634	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:0827-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
123633	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:0825-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
123167	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2019-1046) (Foreshadow)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
123046	Fedora 28 : xen (2019-bce6498890)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
121168	Debian DSA-4369-1 : xen - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
121004	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:13921-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
120987	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:0020-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120983	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:0003-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
120196	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1) (Foreshadow)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119951	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2018-1624) (Foreshadow)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119656	Xen Project Insufficient TLB Flushing Vulnerability (XSA-275)	Nessus	Misc.	high
119648	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:4070-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119642	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2018-1530)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119148	Citrix XenServer Multiple Vulnerabilities (CTX239432)	Nessus	Misc.	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-19962

high

Tenable Plugins

high

critical

high

high

critical

critical

high

high

high

critical

high

critical

high

high

high

high

high

high