Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-10922 - Resource Exhaustion vulnerability in XEN

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
xen
CWE-400
nessus

Summary

The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x mishandles MMIO region grant references, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (loss of grant trackability), aka XSA-224 bug 3.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • XML Ping of the Death
    An attacker initiates a resource depletion attack where a large number of small XML messages are delivered at a sufficiently rapid rate to cause a denial of service or crash of the target. Transactions such as repetitive SOAP transactions can deplete resources faster than a simple flooding attack because of the additional resources used by the SOAP protocol and the resources necessary to process SOAP messages. The transactions used are immaterial as long as they cause resource utilization on the target. In other words, this is a normal flooding attack augmented by using messages that will require extra processing on the target.
  • XML Entity Expansion
    An attacker submits an XML document to a target application where the XML document uses nested entity expansion to produce an excessively large output XML. XML allows the definition of macro-like structures that can be used to simplify the creation of complex structures. However, this capability can be abused to create excessive demands on a processor's CPU and memory. A small number of nested expansions can result in an exponential growth in demands on memory.
  • Inducing Account Lockout
    An attacker leverages the security functionality of the system aimed at thwarting potential attacks to launch a denial of service attack against a legitimate system user. Many systems, for instance, implement a password throttling mechanism that locks an account after a certain number of incorrect log in attempts. An attacker can leverage this throttling mechanism to lock a legitimate user out of their own account. The weakness that is being leveraged by an attacker is the very security feature that has been put in place to counteract attacks.
  • Violating Implicit Assumptions Regarding XML Content (aka XML Denial of Service (XDoS))
    XML Denial of Service (XDoS) can be applied to any technology that utilizes XML data. This is, of course, most distributed systems technology including Java, .Net, databases, and so on. XDoS is most closely associated with web services, SOAP, and Rest, because remote service requesters can post malicious XML payloads to the service provider designed to exhaust the service provider's memory, CPU, and/or disk space. The main weakness in XDoS is that the service provider generally must inspect, parse, and validate the XML messages to determine routing, workflow, security considerations, and so on. It is exactly these inspection, parsing, and validation routines that XDoS targets. There are three primary attack vectors that XDoS can navigate Target CPU through recursion: attacker creates a recursive payload and sends to service provider Target memory through jumbo payloads: service provider uses DOM to parse XML. DOM creates in memory representation of XML document, but when document is very large (for example, north of 1 Gb) service provider host may exhaust memory trying to build memory objects. XML Ping of death: attack service provider with numerous small files that clog the system. All of the above attacks exploit the loosely coupled nature of web services, where the service provider has little to no control over the service requester and any messages the service requester sends.

Nessus

  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201710-17.NASL
    descriptionThe 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.
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    titleGLSA-201710-17 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1132.NASL
    descriptionMultiple 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
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    titleDebian DLA-1132-1 : xen security update
  • NASL familyOracleVM Local Security Checks
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    descriptionThe remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0153 for details.
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    titleOracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0153)
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    descriptionThe 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.
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    titleCitrix XenServer Multiple Vulnerabilities (CTX224740)
  • NASL familyOracleVM Local Security Checks
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    titleOracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0142)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3969.NASL
    descriptionMultiple 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.
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    published2017-09-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103146
    titleDebian DSA-3969-1 : xen - security update
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2017-1812-1.NASL
    descriptionThis 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
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    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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    titleSUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-799.NASL
    descriptionThis 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.
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  • NASL familyOracleVM Local Security Checks
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    NASL idSUSE_SU-2017-1795-1.NASL
    descriptionThis 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
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    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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    titleSUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1795-1)