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Debian LTS: DLA-1181-1 Critical: Xen Hypervisor Security Issues

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Update your environment to the newest kernel version to address various weaknesses impacting stability and security in Ubuntu LTS.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor: CVE-2017-15588

Summary

CVE-2017-15588

Jann Horn discovered a race condition that can cause a stale TLB
entry which might result in privilege escalation, denial of
service or information leak.

CVE-2017-15589

Roger Pau Monné discovered a hypervisor stack leak in the x86 I/O
intercept code, resulting in information leaks.

CVE-2017-15592

Andrew Cooper discovered that incorrect handling of self-linear
shadow mappings for translated guests might result in denial
of service or privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-15593

Jan Beulich discovered that page type reference counts are
mishandled which may result in denial of service.

CVE-2017-15595

Jann Horn discovered that crafted page-table stacking might result
in denial of service, privilege escalation or information leaks.


For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
4.1.6.lts1-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply

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Package: xen
Version: 4.1.6.lts1-10
CVE ID: CVE-2017-15588 CVE-2017-15589 CVE-2017-15592 CVE-2017-15593

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