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Debian 7: DLA-1132-1 Moderate: Xen Privilege Escalation Issues

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Several security flaws in the Xen hypervisor addressed in Debian 7. Make sure to upgrade to version 4.1.6.lts1-9 to ensure protection.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor: CVE-2017-10912

Summary

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.

Read the Full Advisory


Package: xen
Version: 4.1.6.lts1-9
CVE ID: CVE-2017-10912 CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914 CVE-2017-10915

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