Debian DSA-3969-1 : xen - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 103146

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor :

- CVE-2017-10912 Jann Horn discovered that incorrectly handling of page transfers might result in privilege escalation.

- CVE-2017-10913 / CVE-2017-10914 Jann Horn discovered that race conditions in grant handling might result in information leaks or privilege escalation.

- CVE-2017-10915 Andrew Cooper discovered that incorrect reference counting with shadow paging might result in privilege escalation.

- CVE-2017-10916 Andrew Cooper discovered an information leak in the handling of the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) CPU features. This only affects Debian stretch.

- CVE-2017-10917 Ankur Arora discovered a NULL pointer dereference in event polling, resulting in denial of service.

- CVE-2017-10918 Julien Grall discovered that incorrect error handling in physical-to-machine memory mappings may result in privilege escalation, denial of service or an information leak.

- CVE-2017-10919 Julien Grall discovered that incorrect handling of virtual interrupt injection on ARM systems may result in denial of service.

- CVE-2017-10920 / CVE-2017-10921 / CVE-2017-10922 Jan Beulich discovered multiple places where reference counting on grant table operations was incorrect, resulting in potential privilege escalation.

- CVE-2017-12135 Jan Beulich found multiple problems in the handling of transitive grants which could result in denial of service and potentially privilege escalation.

- CVE-2017-12136 Ian Jackson discovered that race conditions in the allocator for grant mappings may result in denial of service or privilege escalation. This only affects Debian stretch.

- CVE-2017-12137 Andrew Cooper discovered that incorrect validation of grants may result in privilege escalation.

- CVE-2017-12855 Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect grant status handling, thus incorrectly informing the guest that the grant is no longer in use.

- XSA-235 (no CVE yet)

Wei Liu discovered that incorrect locking of add-to-physmap operations on ARM may result in denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the xen packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-9+deb8u10.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1-1+deb9u3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 103146

File Name: debian_DSA-3969.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/13/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10912, CVE-2017-10913, CVE-2017-10914, CVE-2017-10915, CVE-2017-10916, CVE-2017-10917, CVE-2017-10918, CVE-2017-10919, CVE-2017-10920, CVE-2017-10921, CVE-2017-10922, CVE-2017-12135, CVE-2017-12136, CVE-2017-12137, CVE-2017-12855, CVE-2017-15596

DSA: 3969

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