Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8338 - 7PK - Security Features vulnerability in XEN
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Xen 4.6.x and earlier does not properly enforce limits on page order inputs for the (1) XENMEM_increase_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, (3) XENMEM_exchange, and possibly other HYPERVISOR_memory_op suboperations, which allows ARM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, guest reboot, or watchdog timeout and host reboot) and possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-12A089920E.NASL description eepro100: Prevent two endless loops [CVE-2015-8345], pcnet: fix rx buffer overflow [CVE-2015-7512], ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception [CVE-2015-8504], additional patch for [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] long running memory operations on ARM [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] XENMEM_exchange error handling issues [XSA-159, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340] libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error [XSA-160, CVE-2015-8341] ---- heap buffer overflow vulnerability in pcnet emulator [XSA-162, CVE-2015-7504], virtual PMU is unsupported [XSA-163] 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-03-04 plugin id 89151 published 2016-03-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89151 title Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-5.fc23 (2015-12a089920e) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2015-12a089920e. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(89151); script_version("2.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-7504", "CVE-2015-7512", "CVE-2015-8338", "CVE-2015-8339", "CVE-2015-8340", "CVE-2015-8341", "CVE-2015-8345", "CVE-2015-8504"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2015-12a089920e"); script_name(english:"Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-5.fc23 (2015-12a089920e)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "eepro100: Prevent two endless loops [CVE-2015-8345], pcnet: fix rx buffer overflow [CVE-2015-7512], ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception [CVE-2015-8504], additional patch for [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] long running memory operations on ARM [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] XENMEM_exchange error handling issues [XSA-159, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340] libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error [XSA-160, CVE-2015-8341] ---- heap buffer overflow vulnerability in pcnet emulator [XSA-162, CVE-2015-7504], virtual PMU is unsupported [XSA-163] 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." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261461" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284911" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284919" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284933" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285061" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285213" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285350" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289541" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174017.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?6d882a23" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected xen package."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/12/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/04"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^23([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 23.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC23", reference:"xen-4.5.2-5.fc23")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "xen"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-08E4AF5A20.NASL description eepro100: Prevent two endless loops [CVE-2015-8345] (#1285215), pcnet: fix rx buffer overflow [CVE-2015-7512], ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception [CVE-2015-8504], additional patch for [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] long running memory operations on ARM [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] XENMEM_exchange error handling issues [XSA-159, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340] libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error [XSA-160, CVE-2015-8341] ---- heap buffer overflow vulnerability in pcnet emulator [XSA-162, CVE-2015-7504], virtual PMU is unsupported [XSA-163] 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-03-04 plugin id 89135 published 2016-03-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89135 title Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-5.fc22 (2015-08e4af5a20) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2015-08e4af5a20. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(89135); script_version("2.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-7504", "CVE-2015-7512", "CVE-2015-8338", "CVE-2015-8339", "CVE-2015-8340", "CVE-2015-8341", "CVE-2015-8345"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2015-08e4af5a20"); script_name(english:"Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-5.fc22 (2015-08e4af5a20)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "eepro100: Prevent two endless loops [CVE-2015-8345] (#1285215), pcnet: fix rx buffer overflow [CVE-2015-7512], ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception [CVE-2015-8504], additional patch for [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] long running memory operations on ARM [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] XENMEM_exchange error handling issues [XSA-159, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340] libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error [XSA-160, CVE-2015-8341] ---- heap buffer overflow vulnerability in pcnet emulator [XSA-162, CVE-2015-7504], virtual PMU is unsupported [XSA-163] 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." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261461" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284911" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284919" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284933" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285061" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285213" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285350" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174187.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?910221e5" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected xen package."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/12/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/04"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^22([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 22.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC22", reference:"xen-4.5.2-5.fc22")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "xen"); }
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3633.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2015-8338 Julien Grall discovered that Xen on ARM was susceptible to denial of service via long running memory operations. - CVE-2016-4480 Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect page table handling could result in privilege escalation inside a Xen guest instance. - CVE-2016-4962 Wei Liu discovered multiple cases of missing input sanitising in libxl which could result in denial of service. - CVE-2016-5242 Aaron Cornelius discovered that incorrect resource handling on ARM systems could result in denial of service. - CVE-2016-6258 Jeremie Boutoille discovered that incorrect pagetable handling in PV instances could result in guest to host privilege escalation. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92614 published 2016-07-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92614 title Debian DSA-3633-1 : xen - security update (Bunker Buster) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3633. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(92614); script_version("2.12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/07/10"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8338", "CVE-2016-4480", "CVE-2016-4962", "CVE-2016-5242", "CVE-2016-6258"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3633"); script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2016-B-0118-S"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3633-1 : xen - security update (Bunker Buster)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2015-8338 Julien Grall discovered that Xen on ARM was susceptible to denial of service via long running memory operations. - CVE-2016-4480 Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect page table handling could result in privilege escalation inside a Xen guest instance. - CVE-2016-4962 Wei Liu discovered multiple cases of missing input sanitising in libxl which could result in denial of service. - CVE-2016-5242 Aaron Cornelius discovered that incorrect resource handling on ARM systems could result in denial of service. - CVE-2016-6258 Jeremie Boutoille discovered that incorrect pagetable handling in PV instances could result in guest to host privilege escalation." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8338" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4480" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4962" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5242" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6258" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/xen" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the xen packages. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-9+deb8u6." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/07/27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/07/29"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libxen-4.4", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libxen-dev", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libxenstore3.0", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-hypervisor-4.4-arm64", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-hypervisor-4.4-armhf", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-system-amd64", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-system-arm64", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-system-armhf", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-utils-4.4", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-utils-common", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xenstore-utils", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u6")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");