Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-10013 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in XEN
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Xen through 4.8.x allows local 64-bit x86 HVM guest OS users to gain privileges by leveraging mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's configuration that allows an attacker to either directly access an executable file, for example through shell access; or in a possible worst case allows an attacker to upload a file and then execute it. Web servers, ftp servers, and message oriented middleware systems which have many integration points are particularly vulnerable, because both the programmers and the administrators must be in synch regarding the interfaces and the correct privileges for each interface.
- Leverage Executable Code in Non-Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's trust in configuration and resource files, when the executable loads the resource (such as an image file or configuration file) the attacker has modified the file to either execute malicious code directly or manipulate the target process (e.g. application server) to execute based on the malicious configuration parameters. Since systems are increasingly interrelated mashing up resources from local and remote sources the possibility of this attack occurring is high. The attack can be directed at a client system, such as causing buffer overrun through loading seemingly benign image files, as in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 where specially crafted JPEG files could cause a buffer overrun once loaded into the browser. Another example targets clients reading pdf files. In this case the attacker simply appends javascript to the end of a legitimate url for a pdf (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/) http://path/to/pdf/file.pdf#whatever_name_you_want=javascript:your_code_here The client assumes that they are reading a pdf, but the attacker has modified the resource and loaded executable javascript into the client's browser process. The attack can also target server processes. The attacker edits the resource or configuration file, for example a web.xml file used to configure security permissions for a J2EE app server, adding role name "public" grants all users with the public role the ability to use the administration functionality. The server trusts its configuration file to be correct, but when they are manipulated, the attacker gains full control.
- Blue Boxing This type of attack against older telephone switches and trunks has been around for decades. A tone is sent by an adversary to impersonate a supervisor signal which has the effect of rerouting or usurping command of the line. While the US infrastructure proper may not contain widespread vulnerabilities to this type of attack, many companies are connected globally through call centers and business process outsourcing. These international systems may be operated in countries which have not upgraded Telco infrastructure and so are vulnerable to Blue boxing. Blue boxing is a result of failure on the part of the system to enforce strong authorization for administrative functions. While the infrastructure is different than standard current applications like web applications, there are historical lessons to be learned to upgrade the access control for administrative functions.
- Restful Privilege Elevation Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.
- Target Programs with Elevated Privileges This attack targets programs running with elevated privileges. The attacker would try to leverage a bug in the running program and get arbitrary code to execute with elevated privileges. For instance an attacker would look for programs that write to the system directories or registry keys (such as HKLM, which stores a number of critical Windows environment variables). These programs are typically running with elevated privileges and have usually not been designed with security in mind. Such programs are excellent exploit targets because they yield lots of power when they break. The malicious user try to execute its code at the same level as a privileged system call.
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-2.NASL description This update for xen fixes the following issues : - A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013) - CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932) - PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024) - A missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation could lead to a hypervisor crash leading to a Denial of Servce. (XSA-203, bsc#1014300, CVE-2016-10025) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-01-03 plugin id 96250 published 2017-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96250 title openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2017-2) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-2. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(96250); script_version("3.6"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/07/10"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10013", "CVE-2016-10024", "CVE-2016-10025", "CVE-2016-9932"); script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2017-B-0008-S"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2017-2)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2017-2 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for xen fixes the following issues : - A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. 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(XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013) - CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932) - PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024) 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96087 published 2016-12-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96087 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2016:3241-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2016:3241-1. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(96087); script_version("1.12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/07/10"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10013", "CVE-2016-10024", "CVE-2016-9932"); script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2017-B-0008-S"); script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2016:3241-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for xen fixes the following issues : - A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. 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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-01-03 plugin id 96216 published 2017-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96216 title Fedora 24 : xen (2016-bc02bff7f5) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-783.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2016-10013 (xsa-204) Xen mishandles SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which can lead to privilege escalation. The vulnerability is only exposed to 64-bit x86 HVM guests. CVE-2016-10024 (xsa-202) PV guests may be able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2017-01-16 plugin id 96491 published 2017-01-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96491 title Debian DLA-783-1 : xen security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-5.NASL description This updates xen to version 4.4.4_06 to fix the following issues : - An unprivileged user in a guest could gain guest could escalate privilege to that of the guest kernel, if it had could invoke the instruction emulator. Only 64-bit x86 HVM guest were affected. Linux guest have not been vulnerable. (boo#1016340, CVE-2016-10013) - An unprivileged user in a 64 bit x86 guest could gain information from the host, crash the host or gain privilege of the host (boo#1009107, CVE-2016-9383) - An unprivileged guest process could (unintentionally or maliciously) obtain or ocorrupt sensitive information of other programs in the same guest. Only x86 HVM guests have been affected. The attacker needs to be able to trigger the Xen instruction emulator. (boo#1000106, CVE-2016-7777) - A guest on x86 systems could read small parts of hypervisor stack data (boo#1012651, CVE-2016-9932) - A malicious guest kernel could hang or crash the host system (boo#1014298, CVE-2016-10024) - A malicious guest administrator could escalate their privilege to that of the host. Only affects x86 HVM guests using qemu older version 1.6.0 or using the qemu-xen-traditional. (boo#1011652, CVE-2016-9637) - An unprivileged guest user could escalate privilege to that of the guest administrator on x86 HVM guests, especially on Intel CPUs (boo#1009100, CVE-2016-9386) - An unprivileged guest user could escalate privilege to that of the guest administrator (on AMD CPUs) or crash the system (on Intel CPUs) on 32-bit x86 HVM guests. Only guest operating systems that allowed a new task to start in VM86 mode were affected. (boo#1009103, CVE-2016-9382) - A malicious guest administrator could crash the host on x86 PV guests only (boo#1009104, CVE-2016-9385) - A malicious guest administrator could get privilege of the host emulator process on x86 HVM guests. (boo#1009109, CVE-2016-9381) - A vulnerability in pygrub allowed a malicious guest administrator to obtain the contents of sensitive host files, or even delete those files (boo#1009111, CVE-2016-9379, CVE-2016-9380) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the RTL8139 ethernet emulation to consume CPU cycles on the host, causing a DoS situation (boo#1007157, CVE-2016-8910) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the intel-hda sound emulation to consume CPU cycles on the host, causing a DoS situation (boo#1007160, CVE-2016-8909) - A privileged guest user could cause a crash of the emulator process on the host by exploiting a divide by zero vulnerability of the JAZZ RC4030 chipset emulation (boo#1005004 CVE-2016-8667) - A privileged guest user could cause a crash of the emulator process on the host by exploiting a divide by zero issue of the 16550A UART emulation (boo#1005005, CVE-2016-8669) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the USB xHCI emulation, causing a DoS situation on the host (boo#1004016, CVE-2016-8576) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the ColdFire Fash Ethernet Controller emulation, causing a DoS situation on the host (boo#1003030, CVE-2016-7908) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the AMD PC-Net II emulation, causing a DoS situation on the host (boo#1003032, CVE-2016-7909) - Cause a reload of clvm in the block-dmmd script to avoid a blocking lvchange call (boo#1002496) - Also unplug SCSI disks in qemu-xen-traditional for upstream unplug protocol. Before a single SCSI storage devices added to HVM guests could appear multiple times in the guest. (boo#953518) - Fix a kernel panic / black screen when trying to boot a XEN kernel on some UEFI firmwares (boo#1000195) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-01-03 plugin id 96253 published 2017-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96253 title openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2017-5) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2017-0153.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0153 for details. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 103830 published 2017-10-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103830 title OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0153) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-4.NASL description This updates xen to version 4.5.5 to fix the following issues : - An unprivileged user in a guest could gain guest could escalate privilege to that of the guest kernel, if it had could invoke the instruction emulator. Only 64-bit x86 HVM guest were affected. Linux guest have not been vulnerable. (boo#1016340, CVE-2016-10013) - An unprivileged user in a 64 bit x86 guest could gain information from the host, crash the host or gain privilege of the host (boo#1009107, CVE-2016-9383) - An unprivileged guest process could (unintentionally or maliciously) obtain or ocorrupt sensitive information of other programs in the same guest. Only x86 HVM guests have been affected. The attacker needs to be able to trigger the Xen instruction emulator. (boo#1000106, CVE-2016-7777) - A guest on x86 systems could read small parts of hypervisor stack data (boo#1012651, CVE-2016-9932) - A malicious guest kernel could hang or crash the host system (boo#1014298, CVE-2016-10024) - The epro100 emulated network device caused a memory leak in the host when unplugged in the guest. A privileged user in the guest could use this to cause a DoS on the host or potentially crash the guest process on the host (boo#1013668, CVE-2016-9101) - The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller was vulnerable to an infinite loop that could be trigged by a privileged user in the guest, leading to DoS (boo#1013657, CVE-2016-9776) - A malicious guest administrator could escalate their privilege to that of the host. Only affects x86 HVM guests using qemu older version 1.6.0 or using the qemu-xen-traditional. (boo#1011652, CVE-2016-9637) - An unprivileged guest user could escalate privilege to that of the guest administrator on x86 HVM guests, especially on Intel CPUs (boo#1009100, CVE-2016-9386) - An unprivileged guest user could escalate privilege to that of the guest administrator (on AMD CPUs) or crash the system (on Intel CPUs) on 32-bit x86 HVM guests. Only guest operating systems that allowed a new task to start in VM86 mode were affected. (boo#1009103, CVE-2016-9382) - A malicious guest administrator could crash the host on x86 PV guests only (boo#1009104, CVE-2016-9385) - An unprivileged guest user was able to crash the guest. (boo#1009108, CVE-2016-9377, CVE-2016-9378) - A malicious guest administrator could get privilege of the host emulator process on x86 HVM guests. (boo#1009109, CVE-2016-9381) - A vulnerability in pygrub allowed a malicious guest administrator to obtain the contents of sensitive host files, or even delete those files (boo#1009111, CVE-2016-9379, CVE-2016-9380) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the RTL8139 ethernet emulation to consume CPU cycles on the host, causing a DoS situation (boo#1007157, CVE-2016-8910) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the intel-hda sound emulation to consume CPU cycles on the host, causing a DoS situation (boo#1007160, CVE-2016-8909) - A privileged guest user could cause a crash of the emulator process on the host by exploiting a divide by zero vulnerability of the JAZZ RC4030 chipset emulation (boo#1005004 CVE-2016-8667) - A privileged guest user could cause a crash of the emulator process on the host by exploiting a divide by zero issue of the 16550A UART emulation (boo#1005005, CVE-2016-8669) - A privileged guest user could cause a memory leak in the USB EHCI emulation, causing a DoS situation on the host (boo#1003870, CVE-2016-7995) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the USB xHCI emulation, causing a DoS situation on the host (boo#1004016, CVE-2016-8576) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the ColdFire Fash Ethernet Controller emulation, causing a DoS situation on the host (boo#1003030, CVE-2016-7908) - A privileged guest user could cause an infinite loop in the AMD PC-Net II emulation, causing a DoS situation on the host (boo#1003032, CVE-2016-7909) - Cause a reload of clvm in the block-dmmd script to avoid a blocking lvchange call (boo#1002496) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-01-03 plugin id 96252 published 2017-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96252 title openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2017-4) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2017-0718-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-10155: The virtual hardware watchdog last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 97828 published 2017-03-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97828 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:0718-1) NASL family Misc. NASL id CITRIX_XENSERVER_CTX222565.NASL description The version of Citrix XenServer installed on the remote host is missing a security hotfix. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists when invoking the instruction emulator that is triggered during the handling of SYSCALL by single-stepping applications. A local attacker can exploit this to execute code with elevated privileges on the guest. (CVE-2016-10013) - An out-of-array memory access error exists in the memory_exchange() function within file common/memory.c due to improper checking of XENMEM_exchange input. An attacker on a 64-bit PV guest VM who has administrative privileges can exploit this issue to access arbitrary system memory locations, which can then be potentially used for further compromising the host. (CVE-2017-7228) - A memory leak issue exits due to improper cleanup being performed during guest destruction. An attacker on the guest can exploit this, by repeatedly rebooting, to exhaust memory on the host system, resulting in a denial of service condition. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 99377 published 2017-04-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99377 title Citrix XenServer multiple vulnerabilities (CTX222565) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3847.NASL description Jan Beulich and Jann Horn discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Xen hypervisor, which may lead to privilege escalation, guest-to-host breakout, denial of service or information leaks. In additional to the CVE identifiers listed above, this update also addresses the vulnerabilities announced as XSA-213, XSA-214 and XSA-215. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 100071 published 2017-05-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100071 title Debian DSA-3847-1 : xen - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-3207-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes the following issues : - A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013) - CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932) - PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024) 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96075 published 2016-12-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96075 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2016:3207-1) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2018-0248.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0248 for details. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 111992 published 2018-08-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111992 title OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0248) (Bunker Buster) (Foreshadow) (Meltdown) (POODLE) (Spectre) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2017-0007.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - BUILDINFO: xen commit=9f3030e391274b89deb80c86a6343dac473916b3 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=f663d3dd4e968756d33e29cb2c2c956cabbdd4ca - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=bc33fbc6f9a004dc11dcc18f1c5c755a60b65b73 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee - x86: force EFLAGS.IF on when exiting to PV guests (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 25235009] (CVE-2016-10024) - Rombios: large disk support for LBA48 to L-CHS translation (Bhavesh Davda) [Orabug: 25304859] - x86/emul: Correct the handling of eflags with SYSCALL (Andrew Cooper) [Orabug: 25294731] (CVE-2016-10013) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96520 published 2017-01-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96520 title OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0007) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_942433DBC66111E6AE1B002590263BF5.NASL description The Xen Project reports : The typical behaviour of singlestepping exceptions is determined at the start of the instruction, with a #DB trap being raised at the end of the instruction. SYSCALL (and SYSRET, although we don last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 95974 published 2016-12-21 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/95974 title FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- x86: Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation (942433db-c661-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-92E3EA2D1B.NASL description two security flaws (#1406840) x86 PV guests may be able to mask interrupts [XSA-202, CVE-2016-10024] x86: missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation [XSA-203, CVE-2016-10025] x86: Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation [XSA-204, CVE-2016-10013] (#1406260) 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-12-28 plugin id 96158 published 2016-12-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96158 title Fedora 25 : xen (2016-92e3ea2d1b) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2017-0009.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - From: Jan Beulich Subject: x86: force EFLAGS.IF on when exiting to PV guests Guest kernels modifying instructions in the process of being emulated for another of their vCPU-s may effect EFLAGS.IF to be cleared upon next exiting to guest context, by converting the being emulated instruction to CLI (at the right point in time). Prevent any such bad effects by always forcing EFLAGS.IF on. And to cover hypothetical other similar issues, also force EFLAGS.[IOPL,NT,VM] to zero. This is XSA-202. Conflict: xen/arch/x86/x86_64/compat/entry.S (CVE-2016-10024) - From 4d246723a85a03406e4969a260291e11b8e05960 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 x86: use MOV instead of PUSH/POP when saving/restoring register state (CVE-2016-10024) - From: Andrew Cooper Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 15:42:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] x86/emul: Correct the handling of eflags with SYSCALL A singlestep #DB is determined by the resulting eflags value from the execution of SYSCALL, not the original eflags value. By using the original eflags value, we negate the guest kernels attempt to protect itself from a privilege escalation by masking TF. Introduce a tf boolean and have the SYSCALL emulation recalculate it after the instruction is complete. This is XSA-204 Conflict: xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c (CVE-2016-10013) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96522 published 2017-01-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96522 title OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0009) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-3208-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes the following issues : - A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013) - CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932) - PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024) - A missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation could lead to a hypervisor crash leading to a Denial of Servce. (XSA-203, bsc#1014300, CVE-2016-10025) 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96076 published 2016-12-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96076 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2016:3208-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-3221-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes the following issues : - A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013) - CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932) - PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024) 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96081 published 2016-12-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96081 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2016:3221-1) NASL family Misc. NASL id XEN_SERVER_XSA-204.NASL description According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege elevation vulnerability in the instruction emulator when handling SYSCALL by single-stepping applications. This is due to incorrect exceptions being raised based on the flags at the start of an instruction. A local attacker can exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges on the guest operating system. Please note the following items : - The vulnerability is only exposed to 64-bit x86 HVM guests. - On Xen version 4.6 and earlier, the vulnerability is exposed to all guest user processes, including unprivileged processes in such guests. - On Xen version 4.7 and later, the vulnerability is exposed only to guest user processes granted a degree of privilege (e.g., direct hardware access) by the guest administrator, or else to all user processes when the VM has been explicitly configured with a non-default CPU vendor string (in xm/xl, this would be done with a last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96960 published 2017-02-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96960 title Xen SYSCALL singlestep Handling Privilege Escalation (XSA-204)
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94963
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94963
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037491
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037491
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-204.html
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-204.html