Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-10471 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-DBEBCA30D0.NASL description Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM [XSA-258] (#1571867) x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI [XSA-259] (#1571878) 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 2019-01-03 plugin id 120843 published 2019-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120843 title Fedora 28 : xen (2018-dbebca30d0) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-3230-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820) Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822) Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823) CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot (bsc#1089152). CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635). The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details. 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 118304 published 2018-10-22 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/118304 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:3230-1) (Meltdown) NASL family Misc. NASL id XEN_SERVER_XSA-259.NASL description According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. Note that Nessus has checked the changeset versions based on the xen.git change log. Nessus did not check guest hardware configurations or if patches were applied manually to the source code before a recompile and reinstall. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109574 published 2018-05-04 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/109574 title Xen arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S Exception Handling Guest-to-host DoS (XSA-259) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1181-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820) - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822) - Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823) - CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot (bsc#1089152). - CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635). - CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access (bsc#1083292). The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details. 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 109676 published 2018-05-10 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/109676 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1181-1) (Meltdown) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1177-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820) - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822) - Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823) - CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot (bsc#1089152). - CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635). - CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access (bsc#1083292). The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details. 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 109672 published 2018-05-10 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/109672 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1177-1) (Meltdown) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4201.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor : - CVE-2018-8897 Andy Lutomirski and Nick Peterson discovered that incorrect handling of debug exceptions could result in privilege escalation. - CVE-2018-10471 An error was discovered in the mitigations against Meltdown which could result in denial of service. - CVE-2018-10472 Anthony Perard discovered that incorrect parsing of CDROM images can result in information disclosure. - CVE-2018-10981 Jan Beulich discovered that malformed device models could result in denial of service. - CVE-2018-10982 Roger Pau Monne discovered that incorrect handling of high precision event timers could result in denial of service and potentially privilege escalation. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109816 published 2018-05-16 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/109816 title Debian DSA-4201-1 : xen - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-454.NASL description This update for xen to version 4.9.2 fixes several issues. This feature was added : - Added script, udev rule and systemd service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU. They are triggered via last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-05-14 plugin id 109751 published 2018-05-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109751 title openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2018-454) (Meltdown) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-604574C943.NASL description Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM [XSA-258] (#1571867) x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI [XSA-259] (#1571878) 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 2018-05-02 plugin id 109519 published 2018-05-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109519 title Fedora 27 : xen (2018-604574c943) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-EB69078020.NASL description Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM [XSA-258] (#1571867) x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI [XSA-259] (#1571878) 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 2018-05-14 plugin id 109746 published 2018-05-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109746 title Fedora 26 : xen (2018-eb69078020) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1202-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820) - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822) - Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823) - CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot (bsc#1089152). - CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635). - CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access (bsc#1083292). 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 109721 published 2018-05-11 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/109721 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1202-1) (Meltdown) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1184-1.NASL description This update for xen to version 4.9.2 fixes several issues. This feature was added : - Added script, udev rule and systemd service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU. They are triggered via last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109677 published 2018-05-10 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/109677 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1184-1) (Meltdown) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1549.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, informations leaks or privilege escalation. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118215 published 2018-10-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118215 title Debian DLA-1549-1 : xen security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1216-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820) - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822) - Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823) - CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot (bsc#1089152). - CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635). The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details. 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 109756 published 2018-05-14 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/109756 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1216-1) (Meltdown) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201810-06.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201810-06 (Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact : A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or disclose sensitive information. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118506 published 2018-10-31 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/118506 title GLSA-201810-06 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (Foreshadow) (Meltdown) (Spectre) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1203-1.NASL description This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820) - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822) - Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823) - CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot (bsc#1089152). - CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635). - CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access (bsc#1083292). 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 109722 published 2018-05-11 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/109722 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1) (Meltdown)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104003
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104003
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-259.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-259.html