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Debian LTS DLA-964-1 Moderate: Multiple Xen Hypervisor Issues

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Calendar Grey June 1, 2017
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A variety of vulnerabilities in the Xen hypervisor have been addressed in Debian LTS DLA-964-1, necessitating immediate updates to ensure system security.
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-2016-9932 (XSA-200)

CMPXCHG8B emulation allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive
information from host stack memory.

CVE-2017-7995

Description
Xen checks access permissions to MMIO ranges only after accessing them,
allowing host PCI device space memory reads.

CVE-2017-8903 (XSA-213)

Xen mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall which can lead to
arbitrary code execution on the host OS. The vulnerability is only exposed
to 64-bit PV guests.

CVE-2017-8904 (XSA-214)

Xen mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during
GNTTABOP_transfer. This might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary
code on the host OS.

CVE-2017-8905 (XSA-215)

Xen mishandles a failsafe callback which might allow PV guest OS users to
execute arbitrary code on the host OS.

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Package: xen
Version: 4.1.6.lts1-8
CVE ID: CVE-2016-9932 CVE-2017-7995 CVE-2017-8903 CVE-2017-8904

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