Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-10920 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in XEN
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x mishandles a GNTMAP_device_map and GNTMAP_host_map mapping, when followed by only a GNTMAP_host_map unmapping, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (count mismanagement and memory corruption) or obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-224 bug 1.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201710-17.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201710-17 (Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact : A local attacker could escalate privileges, cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, or have other unspecified impacts. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 103910 published 2017-10-18 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/103910 title GLSA-201710-17 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1132.NASL 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-2017-10918 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-2017-10920 / 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-2017-12137 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. CVE-2017-14316 Matthew Daley discovered that the NUMA node parameter wasn last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2017-10-12 plugin id 103791 published 2017-10-12 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/103791 title Debian DLA-1132-1 : xen security update 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 Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-C3149B5FCB.NASL description xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86: insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220] stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle reference counts [XSA-224] arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs [XSA-225] NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231) 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 2017-06-23 plugin id 101028 published 2017-06-23 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/101028 title Fedora 25 : xen (2017-c3149b5fcb) NASL family Misc. NASL id CITRIX_XENSERVER_CTX224740.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 that causes grant table operations to fail due to improper handling of reference counts. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to have an unspecified impact. - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to blkif responses leaking stack data. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive information. - A NULL pointer dereference flaw exists in the event channel poll that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition. - A flaw exists in shadow emulation due to insufficient reference counts. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to have an unspecified impact. - A race condition exists in the grant table unmap code that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to have an unspecified impact. - An unspecified flaw exists in page transfers that allows a local attacker on the PV guest to gain elevated privileges. - A flaw exists that is triggered by stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to have an unspecified impact. last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2017-07-03 plugin id 101205 published 2017-07-03 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/101205 title Citrix XenServer Multiple Vulnerabilities (CTX224740) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2017-0142.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0142 for details. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 102835 published 2017-08-30 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/102835 title OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0142) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3969.NASL 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 103146 published 2017-09-13 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/103146 title Debian DSA-3969-1 : xen - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2017-1812-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-10911: blkif responses leaked backend stack data, which allowed unprivileged guest to obtain sensitive information from the host or other guests (XSA-216, bsc#1042863) - CVE-2017-10912: Page transfer might have allowed PV guest to elevate privilege (XSA-217, bsc#1042882) - CVE-2017-10913, CVE-2017-10914: Races in the grant table unmap code allowed for informations leaks and potentially privilege escalation (XSA-218, bsc#1042893) - CVE-2017-10915: Insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation allowed a malicious pair of guest to elevate their privileges to the privileges that XEN runs under (XSA-219, bsc#1042915) - CVE-2017-10917: Missing NULL pointer check in event channel poll allows guests to DoS the host (XSA-221, bsc#1042924) - CVE-2017-10918: Stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking allowed malicious guest to leak information or elevate privileges (XSA-222, bsc#1042931) - CVE-2017-10922, CVE-2017-10921, CVE-2017-10920: Grant table operations mishandled reference counts allowing malicious guests to escape (XSA-224, bsc#1042938) - CVE-2017-10916: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s might have leaked information to other guests (XSA-220, bsc#1042923) - CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by leveraging an incorrect return value (bsc#1042160) - CVE-2017-8309: Memory leak in the audio/audio.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly starting and stopping audio capture (bsc#1037243) - CVE-2017-8112: hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via the message ring page count (bsc#1036470) - CVE-2017-8905: Xen a failsafe callback, which might have allowed PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS (XSA-215, bsc#1034845). - CVE-2017-9503: The MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support was vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference issue which allowed a privileged user inside guest to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS (bsc#1043297) - CVE-2017-9374: Missing free of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 101350 published 2017-07-10 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/101350 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-799.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-10912: Page transfer might have allowed PV guest to elevate privilege (XSA-217, bsc#1042882) - CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914: Races in the grant table unmap code allowed for informations leaks and potentially privilege escalation (XSA-218, bsc#1042893) - CVE-2017-10915: Insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation allowed a malicious pair of guest to elevate their privileges to the privileges that XEN runs under (XSA-219, bsc#1042915) - CVE-2017-10917: Missing NULL pointer check in event channel poll allows guests to DoS the host (XSA-221, bsc#1042924) - CVE-2017-10918: Stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking allowed malicious guest to leak information or elevate privileges (XSA-222, bsc#1042931) - CVE-2017-10920, CVE-2017-10921, CVE-2017-10922: Grant table operations mishandled reference counts allowing malicious guests to escape (XSA-224, bsc#1042938) - CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by leveraging an incorrect return value (bsc#1042160) - CVE-2017-8309: Memory leak in the audio/audio.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly starting and stopping audio capture (bsc#1037243) - PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s might have leaked information to other guests (XSA-220, bsc#1042923) These non-security issues were fixed : - bsc#1027519: Included various upstream patches - bsc#1035642: Ensure that rpmbuild works This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-07-10 plugin id 101349 published 2017-07-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101349 title openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2017-799) 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 Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-5C6A9B07A3.NASL description xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86: insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220] NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231) stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle reference counts [XSA-224] arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs [XSA-225] 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 2017-07-17 plugin id 101638 published 2017-07-17 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/101638 title Fedora 26 : xen (2017-5c6a9b07a3) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2017-1795-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-9503: The MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support was vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference issue which allowed a privileged user inside guest to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS (bsc#1043297) - CVE-2017-9374: Missing free of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 101293 published 2017-07-07 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/101293 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1795-1) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-B3BDAF58BC.NASL description xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86: insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220] stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle reference counts [XSA-224] arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs [XSA-225] NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231) 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 2017-07-03 plugin id 101183 published 2017-07-03 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/101183 title Fedora 24 : xen (2017-b3bdaf58bc)