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Debian: DSA-2666-1 Critical: Xen Denial of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2013
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A series of weaknesses in the Xen hypervisor expose it to potential remote exploits. Immediate upgrade is advised to incorporate security fixes in Ubuntu.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

CVE-2013-1918 (XSA 45) Several long latency operations are not preemptible

Some page table manipulation operations for PV guests were not made
preemptible, allowing a malicious or buggy PV guest kernel to mount a
denial of service attack affecting the whole system.

CVE-2013-1952 (XSA 49) VT-d interrupt remapping source validation flaw for bridges

Due to missing source validation on interrupt remapping table
entries for MSI interrupts set up by bridge devices, a malicious
domain with access to such a device, can mount a denial of service
attack affecting the whole system.

CVE-2013-1964 (XSA 50) grant table hypercall acquire/release imbalance

When releasing a particular, non-transitive grant after doing a grant
copy operation Xen incorrectly releases an unrelated grant
reference, leading possibly to a crash of...

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Package: xen
CVE ID: CVE-2013-1918 CVE-2013-1952 CVE-2013-1964

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